US11151820B1
A system and system for personal pathogen status verifying allows an entity to control access to an area of congregation (AOC) at one or more points of entry (POE) is a configurable manner. In one embodiment, the system may be used for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but may be similarly used for other pathogens.
US11151817B2
Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for reducing latency in a passive entry system of a vehicle. In an exemplary method, a computer detects a presence of a passive entry device inside a passive entry zone of the vehicle. The passive entry device may be a phone-as-a-key (PaaK) device or a key fob, and the passive entry zone is an area around the vehicle that is monitored by a wireless detection system of the vehicle. The computer authenticates the passive entry device, which can include determining an identity of an individual authorized to use the passive entry device. Upon successful authentication, the computer may unlock a door of the vehicle and provide a visual prompt to the individual to unlatch the unlocked door. The visual prompt can include an unlatch icon displayed upon a door access panel of the vehicle.
US11151815B2
A key information sharing system includes a delivery device that delivers key information as first information for a control device equipped in an object and a user terminal that receives the first information delivered from the delivery device. The delivery device adds second information that allows the first information to be transferred between the user terminal and a third-party terminal without the delivery device, to the first information to be delivered to the user terminal. The user terminal transmits the first information to the third-party terminal in response to an input operation by a user, when the user terminal receives the first information to which the second information has been added.
US11151805B2
Systems and methods for processing distribution items having unique identifiers affixed thereon. The unique identifiers can include computer readable codes and written alphanumeric strings generated by a user. A system receives the unique identifier and requests payment information from a user, and stores an association between the unique identifier and the payment information, and processes the item according to the payment information.
US11151801B2
An electronic device includes a communication module, a display, and at least one processor operatively connected with the communication module and the display. The at least one processor may be configured to receive an augmented reality image from at least one external device which performs wireless communication with the communication module via the communication module, display a running screen of an application associated with the augmented reality image on the display, determine whether an object associated with input information input to the electronic device is included in the augmented reality image, and display an additional object on the object based at least in part on the input information. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
US11151795B2
A computer-implemented virtual pop-up space comprises a traversable 3D representation of a real-world location, wherein the traversable 3D representation renders a first avatar of a first user. The inventive concept further provides a virtual interface configured to enable a user transaction through the first avatar within the traversable 3D representation of the real-world location.
US11151791B2
Images and/or videos have associated therewith information like location and orientation information for the camera used to captured the images/videos. The associated location and orientation (or pose) information facilitates subsequent processing for producing accurate and convincing augmented reality (AR) outputs. In addition, some embodiments associate user-specific information with images or videos for producing customized AR content on a user-to-user basis.
US11151790B2
A method for adjusting a virtual reality image including: acquiring first three-dimensional coordinates and a first attitude orientation of a positioning component (101); converting the first three-dimensional coordinates into second three-dimensional coordinates, and converting the first attitude orientation into a second attitude orientation (102); converting the second three-dimensional coordinates into target three-dimensional coordinates in a virtual space, and converting the second attitude orientation into a target attitude orientation in the virtual space (103); determining a projection plane in the virtual space (104); perspectively projecting a virtual object in the virtual space onto an imaging area in the projection plane to generate a two-dimensional image (105); and displaying the two-dimensional image on a display screen of a display module (106). Also disclosed is a device for adjusting a virtual reality image.
US11151766B2
Systems and methods for displaying a virtual character in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a view of the virtual character is based on an animation rig comprising primary joints and helper joints. The animation rig may be in a pose defined by spatial relationships between the primary joints and helper joints. The virtual character may be moving in the mixed reality environment. In some instances, the virtual character may be moving based on a comparison of interestingness values associated with elements in the mixed reality environment. The spatial relationship transformation associated with the movement may be indicated by movement information. In some embodiments, the movement information is received from a neural network.
US11151765B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating information, and relate to the field of cloud computation. The method may include: receiving a video and an audio of a user from a client; analyzing the video and the audio to determine an intention category of the user; generating feedback information according to the intention category of the user and a preset service information set; generating a video of a pre-established three-dimensional virtual portrait by means of an animation engine based on the feedback information; and transmitting the video of the three-dimensional virtual portrait to the client, for the client to present to the user.
US11151764B2
A method for preprocessing data records for rendering in a diagram having first, second and third coordinates, wherein values of the first coordinate of the diagram, and/or values of the second coordinate of the diagram are discretized in bins. The method includes assigning to each bin of the first coordinate or to each bin of the second coordinate, data records having a value of the first coordinate or values of the first coordinate and the second coordinate, checking a number of data records that is assigned to each bin; when only one data record is assigned to a bin, instructing rendering the diagram using a third coordinate value of the data record, and when multiple data records are assigned to a bin, instructing rendering the diagram using selected third coordinate values, determined according to a predetermined criterion in which at least one value is chosen and/or aggregated.
US11151760B2
The image reconstruction processing method estimates, in a substance information estimation process, substance information from a reconstructed image for every image update in an image update process, and uses the estimated substance information to update images based on succeeding calculations by successive approximation formulae of a successive approximation method. Since the substance information is estimated, the present methodology can be applied regardless of whether the constituent substance of an imaging sample is known. Further, because the substance information is estimated (updated) from the reconstructed image for every image update in the image update process, reliable substance information can be estimated by avoiding the problem of continuously using the substance information estimated at a point of time where a repeat count (iteration count) by successive approximation formulae is low and at a point of time where the repeat count is high. Accordingly, artifacts can be reduced using the reliable substance information.
US11151750B2
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computer device, and from a head position sensor, head position information that indicates a position of a user's head; receiving, by the computer device, and from an eye position sensor, eye position information that indicates a position of a sensed eye of the user; producing, by the computer device, eye image data that represents a desired eye image based on the head position information and the eye position information; and transmitting, by the computer device, the eye image data to a wearable device worn by the user.
US11151740B2
A method for determining the scale of a digital 3D model may include receiving, corresponding to a plurality of images, a respective plurality of first distances between the camera and the object in the environment and calculating, using a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm, a plurality of second distances between the camera and the object in the 3D model of the environment. The method may include calculating a plurality of ratios corresponding to the plurality of images based on respective ones of the plurality of first distances and respective ones of the second distances and determining a scale of the 3D model based on the plurality of ratios. The method may include creating a scaled digital 3D model based on the 3 D model and the determined scale of the 3 D model. Distances and sizes in the scaled 3D model may correspond to actual distances and sizes of the environment.
US11151739B2
The invention relates to a method for 3D reconstruction of a scene, wherein an event camera (1) is moved on a trajectory (T) along the scene, wherein the event camera (1) comprises a plurality of pixels that are configured to only output events (ek) in presence of brightness changes in the scene at the time (tk) they occur, wherein each event comprises the time (tk) at which it occurred, an address (xk,yk) of the respective pixel that detected the brightness change, as well as a polarity value (pk) indicating the sign of the brightness change, wherein a plurality of successive events generated by the event camera (1) along said trajectory (T) are back-projected according to the viewpoint (P) of the event camera (1) as viewing rays (R) through a discretized volume (DSI) at a reference viewpoint (RV) of a virtual event camera associated to said plurality of events, wherein said discretized volume (DSI) comprises voxels (V′), and wherein a score function ƒ(X) associated to the discretized volume (DSI) is determined, which score function ƒ(X) is the number of back-projected viewing rays (R) that pass through the respective voxel (V′) with center X, and wherein said score function ƒ(X) is used to determine whether or not a 3D point of the 3D reconstruction of the scene is present in the respective voxel (V′).
US11151738B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a scanning device comprising a support base, a pressure panel disposed on an upper surface of the support base, and a plurality of cameras distributed around an outer perimeter of the support base.
US11151737B1
Implementations are described herein for analyzing a sequence of digital images captured by a mobile vision sensor (e.g., integral with a robot), in conjunction with information (e.g., ground truth) known about movement of the vision sensor, to determine spatial dimensions of object(s) and/or an area captured in a field of view of the mobile vision sensor. Techniques avoid the use of visual indicia of known dimensions and/or other conventional tools for determining spatial dimensions, such as checkerboards. Instead, techniques described herein allow spatial dimensions to be determined using less resources, and are more scalable than conventional techniques.
US11151723B2
The embodiments of the present application provide an image segmentation method, an image segmentation apparatus, and a fully convolutional network system. The method includes: acquiring a target image to be processed; acquiring image feature data of the target image; inputting the image feature data into a pre-trained target network far image segmentation to obtain an output; wherein the target network is a fully convolutional network comprising a hybrid context network structure, and the hybrid context network structure is configured to extract a plurality of reference features at a predetermined scale and fuse them into a target feature that matches a scale of a target object in a segmented image; and wherein the target network is trained with sample images containing target objects at different scales; and obtaining an image segmentation result for the target image based on the output. With this technical solution, the effectiveness of segmentation of target objects of different sizes in the image can be improved while ensuring a large receptive field.
US11151721B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for automatic detection, localization, and semantic segmentation of at least one anatomical object in a parameter space of an image generated by an imaging system. The method includes generating the image via the imaging system and providing the image of the anatomical object and surrounding tissue to a processor. Further, the method includes developing and training a parameter space deep learning network comprising convolutional neural networks to automatically detect the anatomical object and the surrounding tissue of the parameter space of the image. The method also includes automatically locating and segmenting, via additional convolutional neural networks, the anatomical object and surrounding tissue of the parameter space of the image. Moreover, the method includes automatically labeling the identified anatomical object and surrounding tissue on the image. Thus, the method also includes displaying the labeled image to a user in real time.
US11151716B2
The instant disclosure provides methods of extracting stain-independent features from digital images of histologically stained cells. Stain-independent features provide consistent assessment of cell morphology in the presence of staining variation and across different stains or stain formulations. Improved consistency in cell morphology assessments finds use in automated cell classification and other image processing applications. Also included are systems for practicing the described methods. The instant disclosure also provides computer readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device and/or components of a described system to perform steps of a method involving of extraction of stain-independent features from digital images.
US11151713B2
A method and a system are described for detection of anomalies in surfaces, such as pipes. The method includes receiving an input comprising surface material type and plurality of frames of a real-time video stream associated with the surface. The method includes eliminating unwanted frames based on magnitude of 2-Dimensional optical flow vectors of the plurality of frames. The method includes identifying potential anomaly frames based on contours in a dense map created using a magnitude of displacement of each pixel of a frame. The method includes detecting in real-time anomalies in anomaly frames from potential anomaly frames based on trained models selected from a Model Mapping Table. The method includes classifying anomalies in the anomaly frames into anomaly classes using one or more deep learning techniques. The method includes generating a health report comprising anomalies in anomaly frames associated with the surface and providing health report to a user.
US11151705B2
An image inspecting apparatus includes a reader that reads an image on a recording material formed in an image forming apparatus and generates read image data and an image analyzer that performs analysis to determine abnormality for the read image data by using a threshold value and creates an analysis result. The image analyzer makes pixels constituting the read image data a target pixel sequentially and performs determination of abnormality for the target pixel by using the threshold value calculated by using a threshold value calculating method. The threshold value calculating method includes a plurality of threshold value calculating methods, and a first threshold value calculating method is switched to other threshold value calculating method correspondingly to a number of pixels included in a region for calculating a threshold value.
US11151700B2
An image processing method, a terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a first exposure compensation value from a global portion of an image; obtaining a second exposure compensation value from a portrait portion of the image; obtaining a final exposure compensation value according to the first exposure compensation value and the second exposure compensation value; and processing, according to the final exposure compensation value, exposure compensation to the image.
US11151694B2
A method and apparatus for denoising a video are disclosed. The method includes obtaining multiple frames of the video. One or more frames of the video may be temporally precedent or temporally subsequent to a central frame. The method includes performing a first denoising of the multiple frames. The method includes concatenating the denoised frames into a concatenated input. The method includes performing a second denoising of the concatenated input. The method includes outputting a denoised frame based on the denoised concatenated input.
US11151693B2
An image processing apparatus configured to divide an image into frequency bands and reduce noise, in which a first image includes a high-band frequency component, and a second image includes a low-band frequency component, includes: a first detecting unit configured to detect an edge in at least one of the first image and the second image; a second detecting unit configured to detect a low-contrast edge that is of a lower contrast than a contrast of the edge detected by the first detecting unit in the at least one of the first image and the second image; a compositing unit configured to composite the first image and the second image using a weighting corresponding to the edge and the low-contrast edge.
US11151690B2
The disclosure provides an image super-resolution reconstruction method, a mobile terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining continuous N first YUV images; extracting N luma images and N chroma images from the N first YUV images; performing sequentially sharpness estimation, image registration, and image reconstruction based on a neural network on the N luma images; performing image reconstruction on the N chroma images; and fusing the chroma image obtained after reconstruction and the luma image obtained after reconstructions to obtain the target YUV image that has a higher resolution than the N first YUV images.
US11151687B2
Anamorphic system for the acquisition, post-production and reproduction of 360° panorama images on three-dimensional objects, suitable for the representation of panorama images deformed according to the principle of anamorphosis on a two-dimensional medium, the image being adapted to be reflected on the outer surface of a three-dimensional medium positioned centrally with respect to the two-dimensional medium; the system including: (A) acquisition: wherein 360° photography shots are taken around the object; the photography shots equidistant from the object and provided with focals; the photography shots also having a mutual superimposition included between 30% and 40% of the image; the acquisition step occurring over time, for acquiring shots of the entire object; (B) post-production: wherein the photography shots are edited to generate the deformed image; (C) reproduction of the image on a two-dimensional medium, the image provided with a central hole; and (D) positioning a three-dimensional medium at the central hole.
US11151684B2
The described embodiments include systems, methods, and apparatuses for increased efficiency processing flow. One method includes a plurality of stages configured to process an execution graph that includes a plurality of logical nodes with defined properties and resources associated with each logical node of the plurality of logical nodes, a recirculating ring buffer, wherein the recirculating ring buffer is configured to holding only any one of a control information, input, and, or out data necessary to stream a temporary data between each logical node of the execution graph, and a data producer, wherein the data producer is configured to stall from writing control information into a command buffer upon the command buffer being full, preventing command buffer over-writing.
US11151681B1
Described is a digitized mail control system. The system may include a server having a memory storing mail data associated with a user and a user computing device coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive an access signal from the user computing device that has accessed the system. In response to receiving the access signal, the server may process the user data and locate the stored mail data associated with the user data. The server may then create and send for execution on the user computing device instruction to display mail data including sender information and action buttons associated with predetermined actions to take in response to the sender information. The server may receive a signal including a selected action associated with a selected action button with regard to a selected sender and automatically execute program code corresponding to the selected action.
US11151680B2
Systems and methods for recommending transportation means are provided. The method may include obtaining current travel information of a target user and historical travel information and social information of the target user, respectively. The method may further include determining a user type based on the historical travel information, the user type being a first type or a second type. The method may further include, in response to determining that the target user is a user of the first type, determining a first clustering model based on the historical travel information; or in response to determining that the target user is a user of the second type, determining a second clustering model based on the social information. The method may further include recommending a transportation means to the target user based on the clustering model and the current travel information of the target user.
US11151677B2
A prediction system provided with an integrated communications interface may include at least one processor configured to scrape the Internet to identify a currently pending legislative bill and information about legislators slated to vote on the pending bill. The processor may parse the information to determine a tendency position for each legislator. The processor may transmit for display to a system user a virtual whipboard that groups legislators into a plurality of groups based on determined tendency positions. The processor may receive a selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators for a communication interaction based on the determined tendency position of the group and access a legislator database that includes legislative communication addresses of legislative personnel scraped from the Internet and divided into a plurality of legislative function categories and receive from the system user a selection of at least one of the plurality of legislative function categories.
US11151672B2
Operations include recommending and presenting academic programs for students. An academic program recommendation model generates recommendations based on a target student's specific characteristics. An academic program is recommended to the target student if the target student's characteristics match the characteristics of other students that have successfully completed the academic program. An academic program is not recommended to the target student if the target student's characteristics match the characteristics of other students that have failed to complete the academic program after some threshold period of time. The system presents an interface for comparing multiple academic programs that have been evaluated in view of a target student's specific characteristics. The interface concurrently lists each of a set of academic programs with a corresponding likelihood of success determined for the target student.
US11151671B2
The present disclosure is directed to a photovoltaic installation process. A process may include determining a method of interconnection to couple a photovoltaic system to an electrical system of a structure. The process may further include determining an ideal usage offset ratio for the photovoltaic system based on a known utility rate associated with the structure. Moreover, the process may include estimating a number of modules required to meet the determined ideal usage offset ratio. In addition, the process may include generating a roof plan based on at least a portion of the site survey information, the roof plan including an illustration of each roof section of the roof. The process may also include and one of approving and rejecting the photovoltaic system based on a comparison of estimated production levels and required production levels.
US11151665B1
Systems and methods for facilitating participative support among users are disclosed. The users may include content-providing users that provide user-provided content to other users. Exemplary implementations may: obtain items of user-provided content; effectuate presentations of the items of user-provided content through user interfaces to the users; receive revenue information from the users, wherein the revenue information represents received revenue for the content-providing users, including a participative-support exchange between a second user and the content-providing user of an amount of a currency being exchanged for a portion of particular (future) revenue received by the content-providing user; determine the particular revenue for the content-providing user, based on the received revenue information; determine and distribute the portion of the particular revenue to the second user, in accordance with the participative-support exchange.
US11151664B2
A document-oriented search can be executed to generate a set of document results, at least one of the documents associated with at least one potential expert. The document results can be analyzed to produce a list of potential experts. An expertise score for at least one of the potential experts can be calculated based on a content score and a metadata score for the at least one of the potential experts. A confidence score for the potential expert can be calculated based on a diversity-constrained content score and a diversity-constrained metadata score for the at least one of the potential experts, the diversity-constrained content score and the diversity-constrained metadata score calculated using an evidence diversity score for the at least one of the potential experts. A list of experts with associated confidence scores that are above a confidence score threshold can be sent to a client device.
US11151662B2
A method for determining social contagion while monitoring social media may be executable via operation of configured processing circuitry. The method may include receiving data indicative of social media activity of a plurality of users, selecting features of interest from the data, building a relationship network indicative of connections between the users and local networks to which various ones of the users belong, analyzing the features of interest to determine candidate features for classification as social contagion, determining a complex social contagion score for the candidate features, and providing an indication regarding the classification as social contagion based on the complex social contagion score.
US11151657B1
Systems and methods include: receiving informatics data from one or more sensors installed at a first set of one or more properties; aggregating and analyze the informatics data to generate one or more favorability scores based upon the informatics data; based upon the one or more favorability scores, determining a set of one or more insurance policy offers for a target property separate from the first set of one or more properties; and providing the set of one or more insurance policy offers for the target property to an insurance policyholder of the target property.
US11151654B2
Techniques for detecting physical conditions at a physical premises from collection of sensor information from plural sensors execute one or more unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the collected sensor information to produce operational states of sensor information, produce sequences of state transitions, detect during the continual analysis of sensor data that one or more of the sequences of state transitions is a drift sequence, correlate determined drift state sequence to a stored determined condition at the premises, and generate an alert based on the determined condition. Various uses are described for these techniques.
US11151651B1
A system and method operates a family of exchange traded funds or mutual funds with different weighted average maturities.
US11151647B1
A system and computer-implemented method of identifying multiple mortgage ready properties using computer technology and/or machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence. The method includes receiving, via one or more processors, information from a customer approved for a mortgage about preferences for a real estate property and accessing, at a memory coupled to one or more processors, a computer file and/or memory location/address to retrieve a plurality of mortgage ready real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information. The method further includes transmitting, via the one or more processors, the plurality of real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information to the customer.
US11151640B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating user interface elements and associated values are presented. An item listing and profile data are accessed. A set of user interface elements are dynamically generated based on the item listing and the profile data, with each user interface element configured to perform an action on the item listing. A set of values are dynamically determined, with each value being associated with a user interface element of the set of user interface elements. The set of user interface elements are then caused to be presented within the item listing.
US11151639B2
The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for bundling remotely ordered grocery items. When a customer places a bundle request, the system determines whether a customer-defined number of the bundle items will be available at the customer-selected fulfillment time. If the system determines the customer-defined items will not be available at the fulfillment time, the bundle order is rejected and the user is alerted. Various other methods to assure complete fulfillment of customer orders are provided herein.
US11151634B2
In some examples, a service computing device receives an indication that a buyer associated with a buyer profile has selected a first item to purchase from a first merchant site. The service computing device associates information related to the first item with a persistent virtual cart associated with the buyer profile. The service computing device receives an indication that the buyer has selected a second item to purchase from the second merchant site. The service computing device associates information related to the second item with the buyer profile. The service computing device receives, from a buyer device, an indication of intention to purchase the items in the persistent virtual cart. Consequently, the service computing device may send an order for the first item to a computing device associated with the first merchant and an order for the second item to a computing device associated with the second merchant.
US11151622B2
Various embodiments of a payment service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a merchant can enable customer use of the payment service by adding code to a web page, such as a catalog or shopping cart page, of the merchant's site. Thereafter, a user can invoke the payment service and complete a purchase transaction directly from the merchant site, without navigating or being redirected to a separate payment service site. In some embodiments, the user can complete the transaction without having or creating an account with the payment service.
US11151621B2
A framework is provided for blockchain-based customer dispute management of wholesale telecommunications claims. A network device receives a telecommunication claim to dispute an invoice from a provider network. The provider network and a partner network that includes the network device are related through a wholesale telecommunications agreement. The network device validates the telecommunication claim based on information in a distributed ledger of the distributed consensus network. The distributed ledger includes transaction information generated by the provider network for the partner network under the wholesale telecommunications agreement. The network device adjudicates the telecommunication claim based on information in the distributed ledger and instructions in a contract and updates the distributed ledger with the adjudicated claim.
US11151614B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating customized advertising content by combining one or more content items with advertising content. The content items may comprise various forms of media content, including, video, audio, etc. Users may utilize an interface to accesses advertising content and content items. In one embodiment, the user may utilize the interface to integrate one or more content items with advertising content to generate customized advertising content. The interface may be used to further modify the customized advertising content. A computing device may monitor on more user's consumption of customized advertising content for various purposes.
US11151613B2
A content delivery provider may stream an application to each of a plurality of computing devices. The content delivery provider may transmit an offer to download the application to each of the plurality of computing devices, after a first initial display interval. The provider may receive a number of positive user interactions with the offer after the first initial display interval, and a total number of positive user interactions with the offer. The provider may automatically adjust the initial display interval by a factor proportional to a desired first-display quantile divided by the number of positive user interactions after the first initial display interval. The application may be streamed to a second computing device, and the offer to download the application transmitted to the second computing device, after the adjusted initial display interval.
US11151610B2
Video of one or more vehicle occupants is obtained and analyzed. Heart rate information is determined from the video. The heart rate information is used in cognitive state analysis. The heart rate information and resulting cognitive state analysis are correlated to stimuli, such as digital media, which is consumed or with which a vehicle occupant interacts. The heart rate information is used to infer cognitive states. The inferred cognitive states are used to output a mood measurement. The cognitive states are used to modify the behavior of a vehicle. The vehicle is an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. Training is employed in the analysis. Machine learning is engaged to facilitate the training. Near-infrared image processing is used to obtain the video. The analysis is augmented by audio information obtained from the vehicle occupant.
US11151604B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling the timing of customer interactions (e.g., targeted product or service offerings to customers) in order to determine optimally efficient usage of a seller's available inventory are disclosed. A customer selection problem (CSP) may be formulated and solved to implement a customer selection policy for controlling the timing with which customers from a customer pool will be targeted with offerings. The customer selection policy may include dynamic optimization to account for intertemporal effects of customer decisions.
US11151593B2
Provided is a process of identifying an offers engine configured to provide information about offers to users, the method including: receiving, at an offers engine, a request for an offers interface website from a mobile computing device; and in response to the request, transmitting to the mobile computing device a website configured to cause a browser of the mobile computing device to perform steps, including: detecting an offers intent in the transmitted website; retrieving from memory of the mobile computing device an identifier of a native application offers interface mapped to the offers intent; and in response to retrieving the identifier of the offers engine, launching the native application, the native application being stored in memory of the mobile computing device and configured to provide an offers interface to the offers engine.
US11151591B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic scan code generation are provided. For example, a meta tag, comprising a user identifier of a user and a promotion code for a consumer good, is extracted from information associated with the user, such as from an email sent to the user. When a current location of a computing device of the user is within a threshold distance of a consumer good location that sells the consumer good, a scan code is dynamically generated based upon the user identifier and the promotion code. A notification of the promotion code, a description of the consumer good location, and/or other information is provided to the user such as through a push notification. The scan code is displayed through the computing device for applying the promotion code to a purchase from the consumer good location for the consumer good.
US11151590B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for a geographic boundary determination service. A geographic boundary may be associated with one of a plurality of geographic locations, and the area within the geographic boundary may be within a specified distance of the geographic location and closer to the geographic location than to any other geographic location in the plurality of geographic locations. The geographic boundary determination service may determine geographic boundaries for existing locations or may determine a set of locations whose geographic boundaries satisfy various criteria. The geographic boundary determination service may further display geographic maps that include the geographic boundaries, demographic indices and other demographic information relating to the geographic boundaries, network coverage information relating to the geographic boundaries, and a targeted geographic region or regions that the boundaries overlap.
US11151586B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify non-traditional asset-bundles for purchasing groups using social media. An example method includes identifying an asset-bundle in a social media message and generating a profile for a user associated with the social media message. The example method also includes identifying a plurality of social media messages posted by cohorts of the user based on the generated profile and classifying the asset-bundle based on occurrences of the asset-bundle in the plurality of social media messages.
US11151584B1
The present invention is a method and system for capturing a dataset over time that represents the response of shoppers to a set of marketing and merchandising stimuli or “elements”. The response includes exposure metrics, engagement metrics and conversion metrics for different shopper segments. The shopper segments may be defined by demographics such as gender, age and ethnicity or by the type of trip, such as a quick trip or a fill-up trip. The system comprises a plurality of means for capturing images, such as cameras, covering the area of interest in the vicinity of the marketing or merchandising element. The method comprises automated and semi-automated analysis of the video to extract the shopper behavior and demographics data for computing the defined metrics. The captured data can be further combined with information such a promotions and advertisement outside the store to further enhance the applications of the data collected in-store from the invention. The captured shopper data can be used for many applications such as comparison of the effectiveness of different marketing elements or the relative effectiveness of different types of promotions, variation of the relative effectiveness of different marketing elements over time or differences between the relative effectiveness of a marketing element for different demographic segments.
US11151583B2
A method and system may be used to determine whether a suspect item is counterfeit. In the method and system, images may be analyzed in order to identify regions of interest of the item. The method and system may compare characteristics of different regions of interests against threshold characteristics derived from an item model. A determination that the suspect item is counterfeit is based on a result of the comparison.
US11151578B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and system for processing a customer inquiry. The method includes obtaining multiple conversations. Each of the conversations includes multiple conversation entries associated with the conversation. The method also includes, for each of the conversations, generating a directed path from a start to an end of the historical conversation. The directed path includes multiple edges and vertices. Each of the edges represents a conversation entry or an API call associated with the conversation, and each of the vertices represents a state of the conversation. The method further includes generating a directed graph based on the generated directed paths and determining an optimized directed path based on the directed graph. The method also includes receiving a customer inquiry from a user device associated with a customer, and generating a response based on the optimized directed path.
US11151575B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for executing a rules-based authentication of an electronic transaction. The method may include receiving first and second payment authorization parameters and second payment authorization parameters. The method may also include receiving from a Point of Sale device a request for payment information and a purchase amount. The method may also include, determining if first or second parameters are satisfied. The first parameters may include a first time range, a pairing of the electronic device to a first apparatus, a first geolocation of the electronic device, and a first maximum transaction value. The second parameters may include a second time range, a pairing of the electronic device to a second apparatus, a second geolocation of the electronic device, and a second maximum transaction value, wherein the second time range does not include the first time range.
US11151568B2
A device may receive, from a server device, a real-time notification indicating that a field of a user account is being modified. The field may include personal information of a user associated with the user account and/or information identifying authorized users of the user account. The device may receive, from a user device, a request associated with a high-risk transaction involving the user account. The device may determine a risk score indicating a likelihood of the high-risk transaction being performed by an unauthorized user. The device may selectively identify an authentication procedure, of a group of authentication procedures, based on the risk score. The device may provide authentication instructions for the authentication procedure to the user device to allow the user device to perform the authentication procedure.
US11151563B2
A computer system monitors one or more communication applications on a device of a user. The computer system identifies a communication that corresponds to a payment from a plurality of communications on the one or more communication applications. In response to the identifying the communication that corresponds to the payment, the computer system automatically identifying one or more other users associated with the payment without prompting the user for information.
US11151562B2
Secure passcode entry using a mobile device having augmented reality capability. The mobile device is registered with an authorization server to register an agreed input display algorithm with an initialization seed, and a user passcode is registered with the authorization server. A superset of options is obtained from an input interface device at which a user passcode is to be entered. The superset of options is processed using the input display algorithm and initialization seed to result in an arrangement of characters including the characters of a registered user passcode. The arrangement of characters is overlaid using the augmented reality capability of the mobile device in relation to an input interface of the input interface device.
US11151553B2
According to one embodiment, a blockchain service device includes an interface, a memory, and a processor. The interface receives a request to perform a blockchain service. The blockchain service includes generating a local key using a private key stored on a user device. The request includes a transaction restraint. The memory stores software used to generate an input to generate the local key. The processor generates the input in response to the request. The input is used to generate a local key that includes the at least one transaction restraint. The interface communicates the input and receives a first block in response to the communication of the input. The first block is generated using the local key and the transaction restraint. The processor inserts the first block in a blockchain, wherein inserting the first block in the blockchain preauthorizes a transaction that is limited by the transaction restraint.
US11151550B2
A method for verifying transactions is discussed. The method includes receiving a transaction request for performing a transaction between a user account and a merchant account. The method includes determining, based on authentication of the user account, a common identifier associated with the user account, the common identifier indicating the user account being authorized for use at a plurality of merchant accounts including the merchant account. The method includes determining a payment token for performing the transaction, the determining the payment token based on the common identifier and a user associated with the user account. The method also includes providing the payment token for completing the transaction.
US11151545B1
Systems and methods for secure and efficient transaction resolution and execution are provided. A method may include capturing, via a camera embedded in a smart card, an image of an object. The object may be associated with one of a plurality of service categories. The method may include processing the image and determining the service category, from the plurality of service categories, which is associated with the object. The method may also include determining a service provider that provides the service of the service category for a user associated with the smart card, and determining a monetary balance owed by the user to the service provider for the service. The method may also include executing a payment, via a wireless communication element that is embedded in the smart card, in the amount of the monetary balance, from an account associated with the user to the service provider.
US11151527B2
Cryptocurrency can be stored in a plurality of cryptocurrency wallets associated with a plurality of respective users and managed by establishing a unit cost basis value for each cryptocurrency unit in a fiat currency. For example, a purchase request is received by a server computer from a user device. The purchase request is associated with a merchant to be paid in a cryptocurrency chosen by a user and stored in a cryptocurrency wallet of the user. A cryptocurrency exchange from multiple cryptocurrency exchanges having the best cryptocurrency exchange rate is identified for converting the chosen cryptocurrency to the fiat currency. A gain for the purchase transaction is calculated when the best cryptocurrency exchange rate is greater than the unit cost basis value of the chosen cryptocurrency stored in the cryptocurrency wallet of the user. The fiat currency converted in the identified cryptocurrency exchange is received from the cryptocurrency exchange to pay the merchant.
US11151524B2
Methods and systems for load balancing of payment requests among payment gateways by an e-commerce platform. The method may include detecting an anticipated load event and identifying a first payment gateway to be impacted by the anticipated load event, wherein a merchant account is associated with the first payment gateway. The platform may then identify, based on merchant parameters associated with the merchant account, a second payment gateway and, during the anticipated load event, transmit at least some payment requests first to the second payment gateway instead of to the first payment gateway.
US11151523B2
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, at a mobile device from a point-of-sale terminal of a first entity, an identifier of the first entity, a transaction amount for a transaction, and a transaction identifier for the transaction. The method also can include receiving an authorization from a user of the mobile device for the transaction while the user is at the point-of-sale terminal, the mobile device running a mobile application that is associated with a mobile wallet provider. The method additionally can include determining that the mobile device is unable to communicate with the mobile wallet provider. The method further can include generating an encrypted transaction code. The encrypted transaction code can include a preauthorization from the user to pay the first entity for the transaction amount from a first account of the user maintained by a first financial institution. The method additionally can include sending the encrypted transaction code from the mobile device to the point-of-sale terminal to cause the encrypted transaction code to be sent through a proxy communication channel extending from the point-of-sale terminal, through a transaction system, to the mobile wallet provider, to cause the mobile wallet provider to decrypt the encrypted transaction code and verify the preauthorization from the user, to cause the first financial institution to retrieve from the transaction system an account identifier of a second account of the first entity maintained by a second financial institution based on the identifier of the first entity and send to the transaction system payment information regarding a payment to be made to the second account from the first account for the transaction, to cause the payment information to be routed through the transaction system to the second financial institution, and to cause the point-of-sale terminal to receive a notification of the payment for the transaction in real-time while the user remains at the point-of-sale terminal. Other embodiments are described.
US11151518B2
A server system suitable for generating calendar events based on guided hints is provided. The server system receives, from a device of a first user, an indication to create a calendar event. The server system derives, using natural language processing, guided hints for information for the calendar event, and causes presentation of the guided hints on a user interface displayed on the device of the first user. The server system receives the information in response to the guided hints presented on the device of the first user, and generates the calendar event based on the information.
US11151513B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically generating acquisition IDs and using them to track and record how products are identified, offered, and sold, as well as how customers respond to particular variations of product offers. The acquisition ID can be associated with any product sale, transaction completion, or account creation initiated using or otherwise identifying or associated with the acquisition ID, where the connection to the acquisition ID can be maintained and retained with ongoing records associated with the interaction and created account, transaction, and/or product purchase. Using the stored information and the acquisition IDs, an organization can precisely determine what products were sold using which marketing tactic, campaign, or channel through which the transaction occurred and/or was initiated, among others.
US11151503B2
Systems, methods, and software to facilitate visualization of an application associated with an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a graphical user interface to the application having a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) is rendered. A selection of at least one KPI of the plurality of KPIs is received along with instructions to link the at least one KPI to a home screen of an operating system. Dynamic KPI data associated with the at least one KPI is fed to the operating system for visualization of the at least one KPI on the home screen.
US11151497B2
The generation of a factory order to control production of nucleotide sequences by a gene manufacturing system includes receiving an expression indicating an operation on sequence operands, each representing at least one nucleotide sequence part, evaluating the expression to a sequence specification, wherein the sequence specification comprises a data structure including one or more first-level operations and one or more second-level operations, and generating the factory order based upon execution of the one or more first-level operations and the one or more second-level operations. In a recursive manner, the one or more first-level operations operate on at least one first-level sequence operand, the value of which is resolved by execution of one or more of the second-level operations. The factory order may then be provided to the gene manufacturing system to assemble the sequence parts into nucleotide sequences represented by the sequence specification.
US11151493B2
Embodiments are directed towards infrastructure benchmarking based on dynamic cost modeling. Raw customer models that represent a customer's business system may be ingested into a benchmarking system and mapped to customer models based on one or more standard models. Benchmarking information that may be generated from one or more community models that are one or more customer models of other customers that may be available to the benchmarking application. Additional third-party information, such as, industry survey information may also be used for generating benchmarking information. The benchmarking information may be used to generate reports that include comparisons between one or more customer models and the one or more community models. The benchmarking information may be continuously updated based on changes to customer models and/or data, community models and/or data, external information.
US11151489B2
A computing system can monitor, in real-time, a location of each respective computing device of the plurality of computing devices based on location data received from a location sensor of the respective computing device, and determine whether to subject a respective driver using the respective computing device to either a default set of rules or an alternative set of rules associated with a geofenced area, based on the location of the respective computing device relative to the geofenced area. For the geofenced area, the computing system can implement a queue selection process for drivers. Outside the geofenced area, the computing system can perform a default selection process.
US11151486B1
A routing system of a call center determines a plurality of advisor clusters to be assigned to each of a plurality of lead records stored in a lead model database. The predictive machine learning model inputs lead model data and advisor model data into a clustering analysis. Various modeling data are extracted from source lead data, sales data, and advisor data, in which the advisor data has been flattened for modeling. The predictive machine learning model applies a combination of a clustering analysis, a cluster model, and an aggregate conversion model to lead model data and user model data. The clustering analysis utilizes unsupervised clustering and supervised clustering, and outputs a plurality of advisor clusters and sales conversion scores. The clustering analysis clusters each of the advisors into one of the plurality of advisor clusters based on degree of similarity of a clustering vector.
US11151484B2
In response to a request received from a client device to view an item, a program determines a category associated with the item and a location associated with a user of the client device. The program also identifies a form based on the category and the location. The form comprises a set of fields. The program then provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes the form to the client device. The program also receives, through the GUI, data values for the set of fields from the client device and a request to add the item to a collection of items. The program then identifies a policy based on the category and the location. The program also applies the policy to the data values for the set of fields. The program then sends a notification to the client device indicating a result of the application of the policy.
US11151465B2
Mechanisms are provided to implement a multi-layer analytics framework. The multi-layer analytics framework obtains a plurality of analytics from one or more analytics source computing systems, at least two analytics being written in different computer programming languages. The multi-layer analytics framework applies a wrapper to each of the analytics in the plurality of analytics to thereby generate wrapped analytics. The wrapper provides a unified interface for executing the analytics in the plurality of analytics regardless of the particular computer programming language used to create the analytics. The multi-layer analytics framework registers the wrapped analytics in an analytics registry, and executes an analytics pipeline comprising wrapped analytics in the analytics registry to perform an analytics operation based on the unified interface of the wrappers of the wrapped analytics.
US11151463B2
Data is classified using semi-supervised data. Sparse coefficients are computed using a decomposition of a Laplacian matrix. (B) Updated parameter values are computed for a dimensionality reduction method using the sparse coefficients, the Laplacian matrix, and a plurality of observation vectors. The updated parameter values include a robust estimator of a decomposition matrix determined from the decomposition of the Laplacian matrix. (B) is repeated until a convergence parameter value indicates the updated parameter values for the dimensionality reduction method have converged. A classification matrix is defined using the sparse coefficients and the robust estimator of the decomposition of the Laplacian matrix. The target variable value is determined for each observation vector based on the classification matrix. The target variable value is output for each observation vector of the plurality of unclassified observation vectors and is defined to represent a label for a respective unclassified observation vector.
US11151455B2
A system and method for controlling a nodal network. The method includes estimating an effect on the objective caused by the existence or non-existence of a direct connection between a pair of nodes and changing a structure of the nodal network based at least in part on the estimate of the effect. A nodal network includes a strict partially ordered set, a weighted directed acyclic graph, an artificial neural network, and/or a layered feed-forward neural network.
US11151454B2
A system for multi-stage placement of material in a wellbore includes a recurrent neural network that can be configured based on data from a multi-stage, stimulated wellbore. A computing device in communication with a sensor and a pump is operable to implement the recurrent neural network, which may include a long short-term neural network model (LSTM). Surface data from the sensor at each observation time of a plurality of observation times is used by the recurrent neural network to produce a predicted value for a response variable at a future time, and the predicted value for the response variable is used to control a pump being used to place the material.
US11151453B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) system for simulating human brain functions such as perception and judgment by using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, and an application thereof. Provided is a device and method for recommending products to a user on the basis of facial expression information of the user through the AI system. The method, performed by the device, of recommending products includes: displaying a product selected by the user; obtaining user's facial expression information with respect to the displayed product; determining the user's satisfaction with the displayed product based on the obtained user's facial expression information; selecting a product set to be recommended to the user from among a plurality of product sets based on the determined user's satisfaction; and displaying at least one product included in the selected product set.
US11151451B2
A data processing method in a data processing device is provided. First to-be-processed data input into a neural network are obtained. Iterative training is performed on the neural network for a first preset number of times by using first target data in the first to-be-processed data, to obtain a seed model of the neural network. First newly added data generated after an elapse of time corresponding to the first time window is obtained, and the first newly added data and the first to-be-processed data are combined into second to-be-processed data. Iterative training is performed on the seed model for a second preset number of times by using second target data in the second to-be-processed data, to obtain a first incremental model of the neural network. A first preset area overlaps between the second time window and the first time window. The first incremental model online is published.
US11151443B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the systems includes a sparse memory access subsystem that is configured to perform operations comprising generating a sparse set of reading weights that includes a respective reading weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory using the read key, reading data from the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the sparse set of reading weights, generating a set of writing weights that includes a respective writing weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory, and writing the write vector to the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the writing weights.
US11151425B2
An apparatus includes a feature extractor to generate image descriptors based on retail product tag images corresponding to a retailer category; a probability density function generator to generate a probability density function of probability values corresponding to visual features represented in the image descriptors; a sample selector to select ones of the probability values based on a sample selection algorithm that identifies positions in the probability density function of the ones of the probability values to be selected; a category signature generator to generate a category signature based on the selected ones of the probability values; and a processor to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on a feature descriptor and one of the retail product tag images, the feature descriptor including the category signature concatenated to one of the image descriptors, the training to cause the CNN to classify the one of the retail product tag images as a type of product tag.
US11151420B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for digital image recognition determination using a learned model is provided. The present invention may include acquiring a first determination result by making a determination concerning first data, using a first learned model. The present invention may include selecting a partial region of the first data. The present invention may then include generating second data obtained by applying a first alteration process to the partial region. The present invention may also include acquiring a second determination result by making a determination concerning the second data, using a second learned model. The present invention may lastly include obtaining a final determination result based on the first determination result and the second determination result.
US11151418B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that enable distributed execution of prediction models by disparate, remote systems. Prediction model code is transmitted to the disparate, distributed systems for execution by the disparate, remote systems. Default model input data may be independently modified by a given system, and the modified input data may be used when the given system executes the model. Model predictions and associated model parameters are received from the disparate, distributed systems. The accuracy of the received model predictions from the disparate, distributed systems are analyzed. Based on the analyzed accuracy of the received model predictions, a determination is made as to which model predictions satisfy at least a first criterion. Computer-based resources are allocated using the determination as to which model predictions satisfy at least the first criterion.
US11151416B2
Artificial intelligence is an increasingly important sector of the computer industry. One of the most important applications for artificial intelligence is object recognition and classification from digital images. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be a very effective tool for object recognition and classification from digital images. However, convolutional neural networks are extremely computationally intensive thus requiring high-performance processors, significant computation time, and significant energy consumption. To reduce the computation time and energy consumption a “cone of dependency” and “cone of influence” processing techniques are disclosed. These two techniques arrange the computations required in a manner that minimizes memory accesses such that computations may be performed in local cache memory. These techniques significantly reduce the time to perform the computations and the energy consumed by the hardware implementing a convolutional neural network.
US11151406B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, device, and readable storage medium for image-based data processing. The method comprises: acquiring an image and a to-be-processed text; extracting features of a plurality of objects in the image, and extracting a feature of the text; fusing the features of the plurality of objects into a fused feature of the image based on a matching degree between the feature of the text and a feature of each object of the plurality of objects; and processing the text based on the fused feature of the image and the feature of the text. Embodiments of the present disclosure can accurately learn an association relationship between a text and each object in an image, and improve the processing accuracy.
US11151399B2
An alignment system comprises a first diffractive optical element comprising an image and a laser source. The image is visible when the laser source is viewed from a desired field of view through the diffractive optical element. The laser source may be configured to produce a beam of light that will extend through at least a portion of the first diffractive optical element, thereby illuminating the image. The first diffractive optical element and the laser source may be disposed in a vehicle.
US11151398B2
A method for anti-counterfeiting processing and related products are disclosed. The method may include: acquiring a face image and an iris image, wherein both the face image and the iris image are from a target object; determining a positional relationship between the iris image and the face image, and performing living body detection according to the iris image; and in response to the positional relationship satisfying a pre-set condition and the iris image being from a living body, determining that the target object is a true and effective face.
US11151384B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method, apparatus, server, and terminal device for obtaining a vehicle loss assessment image. A computer-implemented method for obtaining a vehicle loss assessment image comprises: receiving video data of a damaged vehicle; detecting one or more video images in the video data to identify a damaged portion in the one or more video images; classifying the one or more video images into one or more candidate image classification sets of the damaged portion based on the identified damaged portion; and selecting a vehicle loss assessment image from the one or more candidate image classification sets according to a screening condition.
US11151376B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining placement of Augmented Reality (AR) content. In some embodiments, a processor detects input at a first client device of a first user that a transportation session between the first user and a second user has begun. In response to detecting the input, the processor determines a first location of the first client device based on an image captured by the first client device, and determines a geospatial offset of a second client device of the second user from the first client device. The processor determines a second location of the second client device based on the first location of the first client device and the geospatial offset, and generates for display by the second client device AR content, the AR content being selected based on an orientation of the second client device and the second location.
US11151373B2
An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The circuitry acquires first ledger sheet definition information and second ledger sheet definition information from a memory. The first ledger sheet definition information defines relative positions of an item and a value of the item in a ledger sheet. The second ledger sheet definition information defines relative positions of an item and a value of the item in a ledger sheet unique to a user. Based on at least one of the first ledger sheet definition information and the second ledger sheet definition information, the circuitry extracts an item and a value of the item from reading result information that associates a character string read from a ledger sheet image with information representing a position of the character string, and the circuitry outputs the extracted item and value of the item as a recognition result.
US11151372B2
A method of extracting information from a flowchart image comprising a plurality of closed-shaped data nodes having text enclosed within, connecting lines connecting the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and free text adjacent to the connecting lines includes receiving the flowchart image, detecting the closed-shaped data nodes, localizing the text enclosed within the closed-shaped data nodes, and masking the localized text.to generate an annotated image. Lines in the annotated image are the detected to reconstruct them as closed-shaped data nodes and connecting lines. A tree frame with the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and the connecting lines is extracted. The free text is then localized. Chunks of the free text oriented and positioned proximally together are assembled into text blocks using an orientation-based two-dimensional clustering.
US11151371B2
A method for splitting text line images includes receiving a text line image and identifying that the text line image comprises a plurality of zones, wherein each zone includes text whose font differs from the text of adjacent zones. The method further includes selecting a splitting position between multiple zones and splitting the text line image at the splitting position into a plurality of image segments, wherein each image segment contains at least one zone of the text line image and performing optical character recognition on each image segment to recognize a text segment of the image segment. In certain implementations, the method further includes generating one or more confidence measurements and selecting a splitting position that corresponds to a large gradient in the confidence measurement.
US11151367B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor that acquires document image data that is generated by reading an original document and recognizes character strings that are included in the document image data through character recognition, and the processor searches for a specific character string registered in advance from the character strings and causes a display unit to display a file name that includes the specific character string detected through the searching as a file name of the document image data. The processor extracts date information from the character strings included in the document image data and causes the extracted date information to be included in the file name to be displayed.
US11151360B2
A face attribute recognition method, electronic device, and storage medium. The method may include obtaining a face image, inputting the face image into an attribute recognition model, performing a forward calculation on the face image using the attribute recognition model to obtain a plurality of attribute values according to different types of attributes, and outputting the plurality of attribute values, the plurality of attribute values indicating recognition results of a plurality of attributes of the face image. The attribute recognition model may be obtained through training based on a plurality of sample face images, a plurality of sample attribute recognition results of the plurality of sample face images, and the different types of attributes.
US11151359B2
The present disclosure provides a face swap method, a face swap device, a host terminal and an audience terminal. The method includes: starting a face swap prompt; recognizing and determining a first face image in a first preset image of the host terminal according to the face swap prompt; receiving a second face image sent by the audience terminal; and replacing the first face image with the second face image to obtain a first face-swapped image.
US11151344B2
A bioptic barcode reader is disclosed for selective use of illumination color to capture appropriate data. The bioptic barcode reader includes a housing and a primary imager positioned within the housing, configured to scan a target object during a first time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a primary illumination source positioned within the housing configured to emit primary illumination in a primary wavelength range during the first time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a secondary imager configured to capture one or more images of a target object during a second time period. The bioptic barcode reader further includes a secondary illumination source configured to emit secondary illumination in a secondary wavelength range during the second time period, wherein the second time period and first time period are interleaved and the secondary wavelength range is different from the primary wavelength range.
US11151321B2
A method, a structure, and a computer system for resolving an anaphora. The exemplary embodiments may include extracting individual context data from an individual expression and determining whether the individual expression includes an anaphora representation based on the individual context data. The exemplary embodiments may further include, based on determining that the individual expression includes the anaphora representation, extracting anaphora context data and identifying an object of one or more objects to which the anaphora representation refers based on comparing the individual context data and the anaphora context data to data detailing the one or more objects.
US11151316B2
A webpage notification control system is provided. A computing device monitors a plurality of website content stored on a database. A computing device identifies one or more anchor contents associated with the plurality of website content stored on a database. A computing device detects changes made to one or more data contents associated with the plurality of website content stored on a database. A computing device generates an alert based, at least in part, on the detection of a change made to one or more data contents associated with the plurality of website content.
US11151311B2
An example method includes determining a subset of content excluding user-specific information displayed by an application on a user interface (UI) of a user device. The method further includes transmitting a request to a remote provider an autofill request for the application. The method also includes receiving one or more suggested user values and a field classification request for a text input field displayed by the application on the UI. The method further includes detecting a user input value in the text input field and determining a similarity metric for each of the one or more suggested user values based on a comparison of the user input value to each of the one or more suggested user values. The method also includes transmitting a response to the field classification request to the remote provide comprising the similarity metric for at least one of the one or more suggested user values.
US11151309B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to screenshot-based memos. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method comprises a monitoring displaying screen on a computing device for determining whether the displaying screen reaches a preset trigger condition. The method further comprises capturing a snapshot of the displaying screen in response to the displaying screen reaching the preset trigger condition. The method further comprises matching one or more screenshots comprised in one or more screenshot-based memos and the captured snapshot for obtaining a similarity degree. The method further comprises deploying the one or more screenshot-based memos on the displaying screen in response to the similarity degree meeting a preset similarity threshold. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
US11151298B1
Examples described herein provide for a technique for metal track routing with buffer bank insertion in a representation of a hardware design of an integrated circuit. In an example, pins of ports of hardblocks in a placed layout are identified. Logical tracks for nets associated with the pins of the ports are generated and assigned to respective metal layers. Logical tracks and corresponding nets are grouped into respective groups. Buffer bank(s) is inserted into the placed layout. Each buffer bank is for a group of logical tracks and divides each logical track and net of the group of logical tracks. Each buffer bank has pins associated with the respective divided nets. Each pin of the buffer bank(s) is assigned to a middle or higher metal layer. Metal tracks are generated in a representation of a hardware layout based on the logical tracks and pins of the ports and buffer bank(s).
US11151294B1
One or more embodiments disclosed herein pertain to a hybrid emulation system for hybrid emulation of a design under test (DUT). The system comprises a hardware emulation system to emulate a first portion of the DUT during the hybrid emulation. The hardware emulation system includes emulated registers for the first portion of the DUT. The hybrid emulation system also comprises a simulation system to simulate a second portion of the DUT during the hybrid emulation. The hybrid emulation system additionally comprises a configuration file that identifies a subset of the emulated registers. The simulation system is configured with the configuration file to selectively mirror, during the hybrid emulation, the subset of the emulated registers identified by the configuration file.
US11151288B2
A method and apparatus for processing biometric information in an electronic device including a processor that operates at a normal mode or at a secure mode, the method comprising, detecting a biometric input event from a biometric sensor module at normal mode, creating biometric data based on sensed data from the biometric sensor module at the secure mode, performing biometric registration or biometric authentication based on the created biometric data at the secure mode, and providing result information of biometric registration or biometric authentication at the normal mode.
US11151281B2
The disclosure relates to a video monitoring method for mobile robot. The method includes the following steps: providing one or more private area on a basis of a map constructed by a mobile robot; determining, on a basis of a position of the mobile robot and an image shot from a shooting angle of a camera, whether an image shot currently contains private contents; if the image shot currently contains private contents, shielding the private contents contained in the image; and if the image shot currently is not containing private contents, continuing monitoring the mobile robot. By providing one or more private area in a map constructed by a mobile robot, the mobile robot can determine whether a shot image contains private contents during the subsequent video monitoring process, so as to shield the private contents in the image, thereby ensuring the security in video monitoring of the mobile robot, and avoiding privacy leakage.
US11151275B2
An example operation may include one or more of dividing a data file into a plurality of data chunks, generating a randomness value for each data chunk based on one or more predefined randomness tests, and accumulating generated randomness values of the plurality of data chunks to generate an accumulated randomness value, detecting whether the data file is one or more of encrypted and compressed based on the accumulated randomness value and a predetermined threshold value, and storing information about the detection via a storage.
US11151271B2
A system with an interactive user interface for a plurality of users to author an electronic document simultaneously is described. The system displays visual feedback on the interface to prevent the users from interfering with one another. The system displays data from a remote database linked into the document based on unique identifiers. The data is displayed as an “artifact.” The system monitors and tracks each user's access category level, as well as the access category level of each piece of data pulled from the remote database. The system compares a user's category level to the data from the database to make visible only the portions of the document the user has the appropriate access category level to view and/or modify. The portions of the document that have a higher category level than the user will be hidden from the user either in part or completely. Also, there may be an indicator to the user of such redacted or hidden content from the user's viewer.
US11151267B2
A single architected instruction to perform multiple functions is executed. The executing includes performing a first function of the multiple functions and a second function of the multiple functions. The first function includes moving a block of data from one location to another location, and the second function includes setting one portion of a storage key using one selected key and another portion of the storage key using another selected key. The storage key is associated with the block of data and controls access to the block of data. The first function and the second function are performed as part of the single architected instruction.
US11151256B2
Systems and methods for detecting IHS attacks by monitoring chains of configuration changes made to Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) attributes are described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: monitor a chain of BIOS/UEFI configuration changes; compare the chain of BIOS/UEFI configuration changes against an Indication of Attack (IoA); and report an alert in response to the chain of BIOS/UEFI configuration changes matching the IoA.
US11151255B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or process may allow a customer to install and boot their own firmware securely, without compromising secure boot. A baseboard management controller (BMC) may include a BMC firmware stored via a BMC partition of a non-volatile storage, a customer firmware image including a customer firmware and a signed customer boot block (CBB) file including a CBB, a hidden root key (HRK) hash of the CBB based on a HRK, and a manufacturer signature. The BMC firmware may, when an alternate path to boot the CBB is detected, verify the manufacturer signature on the CBB and the HRK hash, verify the HRK hash based on the unique HRK, and when the manufacturer signature and the HRK hash have been verified, hardware lock the BMC partition, disable the HRK, and transfer control to the CBB.
US11151245B2
Examples associated with user authentication are described. One example method includes authenticating a user of a device using a static authentication technique. A behavior profile associated with the user is loaded. The behavior profile describes a pattern of device usage behavior by the user in a three-dimensional space over a time slice. The behavior profile also identifies distinctive user habits. Usage of the device is monitored, and a behavior similarity index is periodically updated. The behavior similarity index describes a similarity between the usage of the device and the pattern of device usage behavior. The behavior similarity index is weighted based on the distinctive user habits. Access to the device is restricted when the behavior similarity index reaches a predefined threshold.
US11151243B1
The present invention is a system and method for the repeated, dynamic, and automated transformation and manipulation of strings of printable or typeable characters that are commonly used for passwords, PINs, keys, tokens, keys, encryption, and filenames forming a class of printable strings. The system and method described makes use of secured password “Hopping” to maximize data security and user's ease of implementation. “Hopping” refers to a method of automated random-password construction and serial substitution. The process of Hopping as described herein is based upon a set of user-selected transformation rules that employ, among other variables, easily accessible, time-variable, data as sources of randomized inputs. Use of randomized inputs and automated serial substitution at time intervals heightens the security of resulting generated passwords.
US11151241B2
A remote computing device is provided including one or more processors, and a memory device including one or more computer-readable instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the system to perform operations including receiving a validation request comprising a random data string from a secure computing device, in response to the validation request, generating a first check value based on the random data string and software installed on the remote computing device, and transmitting the first check value to the secure computing device. The secure computing device is configured to compare the first check value to a second check value that is generated using the random data string and an authentic copy of the software.
US11151239B2
A method includes, with a computing system associated with a first local identity provider of a plurality of local identity providers, receiving a first authentication request from a first web application of a user device. The method further includes, with the computing system, redirecting a browser associated with the first web application to a server system associated with a master identity provider. The method further includes, with the computing system, receiving from the browser, a master session identifier provided by the master identity provider, the master session identifier identifying a master single sign-on session that is available to the plurality of local identity providers. The method further includes, with the computing system, establishing a first local single sign-on session between the first local identity provider and the browser.
US11151229B1
The invention described herein is directed to a secure text messaging and object sharing mobile application connected to a DRM cloud service that provides encryption, digital rights management (DRM) of the text and of the attachments, blockchain transactions, the capability of attaching documents, photos and so forth, the capability of interfacing with a user's contacts application, and that operates in both Android and iOS environments.
US11151227B2
A system for providing entertainment on a vehicle for passengers is described. The system includes (a) a server storing media files and corresponding media keys and (b) monitors storing subsets of the media files and the corresponding media keys. The system includes a server disposed on the vehicle to store the media files and the media keys for the vehicle; monitors disposed on the vehicle to present media selections to passengers corresponding to the media files stored by the server, locally, or on other monitors disposed on the vehicle, and receive an input from a passenger for playing one of the selections. The system also includes selectively revoking the media keys on the server or the monitors. Program logic executed by the server and the monitors implements secure, digital rights management processes as they pertain to the media files presented on the vehicle.
US11151223B1
A system for lifecycle tracking of drugs provides for medical pumps to provide end of delivery cycle recording of the disposition of drugs, both for drugs that are administered by pump and those administered manually. By introducing drug dispensing identification upstream, for example, at the pharmacy, the invention allows automatic recording of the drug delivery by medical pumps communicating with the central server system. The result is a lifecycle manifest having records linked to a patient that identifies the travel of the drug and delivery of the drug through the medical care system from pharmacy to patient, and identifies discrepancies in drug utilization.
US11151221B2
Probability density ratios may be estimated by a method including obtaining a first sample set including a plurality of first samples and a second sample set including a plurality of second samples, wherein each of the first samples and the second samples is represented as a vector including a plurality of parameters, constructing at least one decision tree estimating a ratio of probability density p(x)/q(x) based on the first sample set and the second sample set, wherein p(x) is a probability density of the first samples corresponding to an input vector x and q(x) is a probability density of the second samples corresponding to the input vector x.
US11151217B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on a computer storage medium, for providing a dynamic contextual library. In some implementations, an interactive element is provided for display in a user interface. Context data that indicates a context of one or more computers is generated. Document data indicating a subset of documents from a document collection associated with a user is obtained, with the subset of documents being selected from the document collection based on the context data. After obtaining the data indicating the subset of documents, data indicating user interaction with the interactive element is received. Data identifying the subset of documents for display is provided in response to receiving the data indicating user interaction with the interactive element.
US11151213B2
Techniques are provided for automatically generating a hierarchical representation of a navigation order within a web browsing session in conjunction with a traversing of a plurality of websites within the browsing session: flagging a subset of the plurality of websites; displaying a user interface in conjunction with the browser such that the user interface provides a traversal control with respect to the subset in accordance with the hierarchical representation; and traversing the subset utilizing the traversal control.
US11151211B2
A real estate information processing system and method for a mobile communication device optimizes operational features for use with a mobile device. The user can easily specify search parameters for searching real estate listings or for searching for a real estate agent. The search results are displayed on a series of results pages. The user can quickly save or delete each page of search results by swiping a finger across the touch-sensitive display of the mobile communication device. In a similar fashion, the user can specify search parameters, such as price range, by simply sliding a finger across the display. The navigation techniques permit the user to view large amounts of data and quickly make selections.
US11151197B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced processing of time series data via parallelization of instructions. An example method includes receiving a query indicating time series datasets and operations to be performed on the time series datasets. Nodes associated with the query are identified, with each node associated with a time series dataset. Nodes associated with operations to be performed are generated. The nodes are assembled into query tree, with parent nodes of the query tree indicating operations that are to be applied to children nodes. Instructions for processing the query tree are generated. At least a subset of the instructions is provided to one or more compute systems for processing in parallel. Results are received, and presented in a user interface.
US11151195B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide a real-time Q&A interface, such as an online chatbot, either standing alone or as a live agent assistant, with predicative Q&A and resource suggestions. In one embodiment, the real-time Q&A interface uses data extracted from a user inquiry to identify and display a primary response, identify suggested inquiries from a knowledgebase and provide a user-selectable suggested inquiries indicator, and identify suggested content items from related content libraries or webpages and provide user-selectable suggested content item indicators. In one embodiment, the suggested content items include related videos and links to webpages with related content.
US11151182B2
A classification model training method includes obtaining a positive training set and a first negative training set, where the positive training set includes samples of a positive sample set in a corpus, where the first negative training set includes samples of an unlabeled sample set in the corpus, training, using the positive training set and the first negative training set, to obtain a first classification model, determining, using the first classification model, a pseudo negative sample in the first negative training set, removing the pseudo negative sample from the first negative training set, updating the first negative training set to a second negative training set, and training, using the positive training set and the second negative training set, to obtain a target classification model.
US11151181B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
US11151178B2
In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include adding a tuple phrase to a phrase index as part of a lazy creation of the phrase index. The adding may include adding the tuple phrase to a dictionary mapped to the phrase index, adding to the phrase index a document identifier and a positional information for the tuple phrase, and adapting a first threshold and a second threshold value, the first threshold representing a threshold lower estimate of query processing burden associated with a least burdensome tuple phrase in the dictionary and the second threshold representing a top estimate of query processing burden associated with a most burdensome tuple phrase in the dictionary. The method may further include sending a query response including a generated query result corresponding to the tuple phrase.
US11151168B2
A computing system receives user input selecting a first search folder in a hierarchical set of search folders for a collection of documents. The system identifies documents of the first search folder by: (i) executing a predefined query specified for the first search folder to dynamically retrieve documents, if any, from the collection of documents, that satisfy the specified query, (ii) identifying documents, if any, from the collection of documents, that are individually associated with the first search folder, (iii) determining whether the search folder includes one or more subfolders, and (iv) in accordance with a determination that the search folder includes one or more subfolders, recursively performing (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) on each of the one or more subfolders of the first search folder, to retrieve documents, if any, contained in the one or more subfolders. The system displays the identified documents to the user.
US11151163B2
Embodiments are provided for partially replicating endpoint routing information, and comprise calculating a first shard interval of a key space based, at least in part, on capacities of a plurality of spine nodes in a network fabric. Embodiments also include mapping the first shard interval to a first spine node of the plurality of spine nodes, communicating shard mapping information associated with the mapping to a set of leaf nodes in the network fabric, and populating an endpoint repository in the first spine node with routing information for one or more endpoints corresponding to the first shard interval. More specific embodiments include calculating respective shard intervals for other spine nodes of the plurality of spine nodes based, at least in part, on the capacities of the plurality of spine nodes. In specific embodiments, the calculating the first shard interval is based, in part, on one or more dynamic parameters.
US11151157B2
A lower-level master node sends, to a higher-level master node, a table-based write set as a bundle of combinations of a shadow copy of the database and a heap tuple map expanded in a memory, and the higher-level master node that received the write set verifies whether the update has already been executed and sends the record of this update to the lower-level master node as a transaction log including a table number, whereby the database can be updated efficiently and consistently from the lower-level master node to the higher-level master node, and from the higher-level master node to the lower-level master node under its control.
US11151154B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates and utilizes synthetic context-based objects. One or more processors define a context object, where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from multiple subject-matters, of a non-contextual data object. The processor(s) associate the non-contextual data object with the context object to define a synthetic context-based object and the synthetic context-based object with at least one specific data store. A request is received from a requester for data from said at least one specific data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object, where said at least one specific data store is within a database of multiple data stores. Data is returned to the requester from said at least one specific data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object.
US11151152B2
In an example embodiment, a solution that creates a questionnaire mapping record for questions in a computerized document is utilized to map questions in the computerized document to normalized questions. Where necessary, normalized questions can be automatically created and included in the questionnaire mapping record. Handing strategy rules may also be automatically created for the normalized question, with the handling strategy rules defining how data may be automatically retrieved and used to prepopulate answers to the questions in the computerized document.
US11151150B2
Techniques and structures to facilitate automatic adjustment of a database connection pool, including calculating a first value indicating a number of connections of to be provided by a first of a plurality of application servers, determining whether the first value is equal to a second value previously calculated to indicate the number of connections to be provided by the first application server and adjusting the database connection pool by providing the number of connections to access the database as indicated by the first value upon a determination that the first value is not equal to the second value.
US11151147B1
A system for outputting an action signal to a controlled system is provided. The system includes a memory storing individuals to be deployed to a production environment as an actor, wherein each of the individuals has a rule associated therewith for asserting an action, and the actor includes one or more individuals, is associated with the controlled system and is configured to transmit an intermediate action signal for asserting the action. The system includes a management server configured to receive the intermediate action signal, select, from a set of available operations, a selected operation to perform with respect to the intermediate action signal, and the set of available operations including allowance and a blocking of the intermediate action signal. Further, in response to the selected operation being the allowance, transmitting the intermediate action signal, and in response to the selected operation being the blocking, blocking the intermediate action signal.
US11151145B2
A method of selecting content object tags for recommendation to a user includes having a taxonomy of tags for labeling content objects to be stored at a content hosting service; identifying a baseline subset of content objects based on a user context at the content hosting service; identifying a targeted subset of the baseline subset based on the user context; determining a tag score for each tag associated with the targeted subset of content objects; determining a maximum number of tags to be recommended to the user based on available space within a user interface of the user; selecting tags with the highest recommendation score from a number of different tag taxonomy branches, the number being no more than the maximum number; receiving tags selected by the user from among the recommended tags; and performing an operation on the content object corpus for the user context using the selected tags.
US11151132B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for distributed processing of a query with distributed posting lists. A dispatch map has entries, wherein each entry identifies one of a plurality of terms in a dictionary, wherein for each of the terms there is a posting list identifying zero or more objects including the term, wherein at least one of the dispatch map entries indicate at least one distributed processing element including the posting list for the term. The dispatch map is used to dispatch sub-expressions comprising portions of a query to distributed processing elements having the posting lists for terms in the sub-expressions, wherein the distributed processing elements distributed the sub-expressions execute the sub-expressions on the posting lists for the terms in the sub-expression.
US11151131B2
A query generation system receives, from a first device, a first input and a first project identifier and receives, from a second device, a second input and a second project identifier. The first and second inputs are the same and are in a natural language format that is not compatible with a downstream database management system. The system generates, based on the first input, a first database query. The system generates, based on the second input, a second database query. The first and second database queries are compatible with the downstream database management system. The system receives a first response to the first database query and a second response to the second database query from the downstream database management system. The system transmits the first response to the first device and the second response to the second device.
US11151130B2
Systems and methods for assessing quality of input text using recurrent neural networks is disclosed. The system obtains input text from user and performs a comparison of each word from input text with words from dictionary (or trained data) to determine a closest recommended word for each word in the input text. The input text is further analyzed to determine context of each word based on at least a portion of input text, and based on determined context, at least one of correct sentences, incorrect sentences, and/or complex sentences are determined from the input text. Each word is converted to a vector based on concept(s) by comparing each word across sentences of input text to generate vectors set, and quality of the input text is assessed based on vectors set, the comparison, determined context and at least one of correct sentences, incorrect sentences, complex sentences, or combinations thereof.
US11151129B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying queries in a discourse context. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a query received from a user device subsequent to information provided to a user device and that defines a discourse context belongs to the discourse context. If the query belongs to the discourse context, the query is modified to take into account attributes of the discourse context.
US11151118B2
The present disclosure includes analyzing client instance performance trends to predict future client instance performance and adjusting thresholds used to send resource utilization alerts based on analyzing the client instance performance trends. In particular, a data center providing a platform as a service includes a database that stores performance data associated with client instances. The data center also includes alignment logic that temporally aligns the performance data, and a frequency based filter that compresses the aligned performance data based on frequency of values. The data center further includes dynamic threshold adjustment logic that adjusts thresholds associated with sending performance trend alerts based on analyzing the compressed set of performance data. In this manner, the thresholds may be dynamically adjusted for changing circumstances and/or relevant details associated with resource usage, and thus may more accurately send performance trend alerts indicative of situations when resource utilization becomes high and resources become low.
US11151112B2
A system, process, and method for organizing unstructured data stored in a database environment with table structure such that the data is retrievable using relational set logic, even with a database environment that does not provide relational table structures, is disclosed. The method creates, updates, and deletes database objects as necessary to describe the relationships between disparate data object types for various unique values and to provide the necessary information to retrieve the desired data objects. A device embodying and enabling the practice of the method is also disclosed.
US11151103B1
A search system obtains a search result comprising an entry. The search result is based on a set of search constraints. The search system generates a hit index based on the search result and each constraint in the set of search constraints. The hit index includes identification information of an element associated with the entry that caused the entry to be included in the search result. The search system updates the search result to comprise an indication of the element associated with the entry based on the hit index.
US11151101B2
Adaptive adjusting of the growth of a persistent log. The persistent log has a log record generator that adds log records to the persistent log. In addition, there are multiple log consumers that consume records from the persistent log. The log consumers publish log processing parameters with respect to the persistent log. The log processing parameters are then used to determine an appropriate adjustment in the growth of the log, which adjustments may then be executed. As an example, the log processing parameter may be a log consumption progress, in which case the log generator may be caused to slow down the generation of log records, thereby slowing the growth of the log.
US11151097B2
Techniques and technologies for dynamic schema determination and enforcement are described. In at least some embodiments, a system comprises: a processing component; and a schema determination and enforcement component configured to receive a first data unit; analyze the first data unit to determine an inferred data schema; receive a second data unit; analyze the second data unit to determine whether the second incoming data unit complies with the inferred data schema; if the second data unit complies with the inferred data schema, write the second data unit to storage; and if the second data unit does not comply with the inferred data schema, at least one of: modify the inferred data schema based on the second data unit; or provide a notification of a non-compliance of the second data unit.
US11151092B2
Embodiments are directed to a replication engine that provides a root node for a file that may be associated with a replication snapshot where the file is comprised of the root node, internal nodes, and data nodes. The replication engine may start at the root node and traverse the file system. If a visited internal node has an epoch value that matches the epoch, the replication engine may continue the traversal by visiting a next unvisited adjacent internal node. If the visited internal node has an epoch value that mismatches the epoch, the replication engine may backtrack to a nearest adjacent internal node that matches the epoch. And, in response to visiting a data node the replication engine may be arranged to determine blocks that are associated with the data node and communicate a copy of the blocks to a target file system.
US11151085B2
There is provided a file management device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to determine a naming rule for a file name to be assigned to an electronic file for a document, based on a format of the document; and determine the file name by using a character string included in the electronic file in accordance with the determined naming rule. The processor is further configured to store, with respect to an existing electronic file, naming rules relating to documents having a common format, in association with the format; and select, for an electronic file for a newly input document, a naming rule to be applied, from among the stored naming rules, based on a format of the electronic file.
US11151083B2
An application development and deployment system allows an application developer to develop applications for a distributed data intake and query system. The application may include information that associates portions of the application with particular server groups of the distributed data intake and query system. The application may be partitioned to generate target application packages for each of the server groups of the data intake and query system.
US11151077B2
A hardware accelerator for computers combines a stand-alone, high-speed, fixed program dataflow functional element with a stream processor, the latter of which may autonomously access memory in predefined access patterns after receiving simple stream instructions and provide them to the dataflow functional element. The result is a compact, high-speed processor that may exploit fixed program dataflow functional elements.
US11151073B1
Some embodiments use one or more FPGAs and external memories associated with the FPGAs to implement large, hash-addressable tables for a data plane circuit. These embodiments configure at least one message processing stage of the DP circuit to store (1) a first plurality of records for matching with a set of data messages received by the DP circuit, and (2) a redirection record redirecting data messages that do not match the first plurality of records to a DP egress port associated with the memory circuit. These embodiments configure an external memory circuit to store a larger, second set of records for matching with redirected data messages received through the DP egress port associated with the memory circuit. This external memory circuit is a hash-addressable memory in some embodiments. To determine whether a redirected data message matches a record in the second set of record, the method of some embodiments configures an FPGA associated with the hash-addressable external memory to use a collision free hash process to generate a collision-free, hash address value from a set of attributes of the data message. This hash address value specifies an address in the external memory for the record in the second set of records to compare with the redirected data message.
US11151067B2
A multi-controller multi-memory device is disclosed. The device may include a plurality of controllers and a plurality memory units (m-units). Each controller is connected with a dedicated request-distribution unit (dist-unit) and a dedicated read-selection unit (read-unit). Each m-unit is connected with a dedicated arbitration unit (abt-unit). A controller's dedicated dist-unit is coupled with each of the abt-units dedicated to the plurality of m-units. The controller is configured to transmit a data-request to the controller's dedicated dist-unit, the data-request addressing an m-unit. The controller's dedicated dist-unit is configured to transmit the data-request to an abt-unit dedicated to the m-unit. The abt-unit is configured to select the data-request for transmitting to the m-unit based on an arbitration process.
US11151065B2
A method for performing detection control of a write protection function of a memory device, an associated control chip, and an associated electronic device are provided. The method includes: detecting whether the memory device supports a first protocol to generate an interface detection result; detecting whether a write protection switch of the memory device is turned on to generate a write protection detection result; and according to the interface detection result and the write protection detection result, selectively initializing a transmission interface of a control chip as a first transmission interface conforming to the first protocol or a second transmission interface, to allow a host device to access the memory device through the control chip, wherein the first transmission interface corresponds to a first configuration of the control chip, and the second transmission interface corresponds to a second configuration of the control chip.
US11151057B2
A method for managing data includes generating, by an offload device, predicted active logical partition data using an active logical partition mapping obtained from a host computing device, generating logical partition correlation data using active memory track maps obtained from the host computing device, generating most probable tracks using the predicted active logical partition data and the logical partition correlation data, and sending the most probable tracks to the host computing device, wherein the host computing device evicts data from a memory device based on the most probable tracks.
US11151053B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, is for maintaining heat information of data while in a cache. The computer-implemented method includes: transferring data from non-volatile memory to the cache, such that the data is stored in a first page in the cache. Previous read and/or write heat information associated with the data is maintained by preserving one or more bits in a hash table which correspond to the data in the first page. Moreover, the data is destaged from the first page in the cache to the non-volatile memory, and the one or more bits in the hash table which correspond to the data are updated to reflect current read and/or write heat information associated with the data.
US11151043B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for predictive memory access are described. Memory control circuitry instructs a memory array to read a data block from or write the data block to a location targeted by a memory access request, determines memory access information including a data value correlation parameter determined based on data bits used to indicate a raw data value in the data block and/or an inter-demand delay correlation parameter determined based on a demand time of the memory access request, predicts that read access to another location in the memory array will subsequently be demanded by another memory access request based on the data value correlation parameter and/or the inter-demand delay correlation parameter, and instructs the memory array to output another data block stored at the other location to a different memory level that provides faster data access speed before the other memory access request is received.
US11151040B2
An approximate cache system is disclosed. The system includes a quality aware cache controller (QACC), a cache, a quality table configured to receive addresses and a quality specification from the processor associated with each address and further configured to provide the quality specification for each address to the QACC, wherein the QACC controls approximation is based on one or more of i) approximation through partial read operations; ii) approximation through lower read currents; iii) approximation through skipped write operations; iv) approximation through partial write operations; v) approximations through lower write duration; vi) approximation through lower write currents; and vii) approximations through skipped refreshes.
US11151032B1
A computer-implemented method for synchronizing local caches is disclosed. The method may include receiving a content update which is an update to a data entry stored in local caches of each of a plurality of remote servers. The method may include transmitting the content update to a first remote server to update a corresponding data entry in a local cache of the first remote server. Further, the method may include generating an invalidation command, indicating the change in the corresponding data entry. The method may include transmitting the invalidation command from the first remote server to the message server. The method may include generating, by the message server, a plurality of partitions based on the received invalidation command. The method may include transmitting, from the message server to each of the remote servers, the plurality of partitions, so that the remote servers update their respective local caches.
US11151025B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to monitor traffic associated with a production application in a production environment of a software development platform, to generate software testing plans based on the monitored traffic, to identify software code to be tested for an updated version of the production application, and to select one or more of the software testing plans for testing the identified software code in a staging environment prior to integration testing in an integration testing environment of the software development platform. The processing device is also configured to perform the selected software testing plans on the identified software code in the staging environment, and to deploy the identified software code in the updated version of the production application in the integration testing environment based at on results of performing the selected software plans on the identified software code in the staging.
US11151023B2
A system for predicting performance failures in a computer program during the course of its development is provided. The system comprises a pattern identifier module that identifies frequent sets of source code files that have been modified together in plurality of historical builds. The system further comprises a performance failure extraction module that identifies frequent sets of performance failures that have been logged together in the plurality of historical builds. The system furthermore comprises a correlation engine that establishes patterns between the frequent sets of modified source code files and the frequent sets of performance failures by identifying co-occurrence between the frequent sets of modified source code files and the frequent sets of performance failures for each historical build. Finally, the system further comprises a performance failure recommendation engine that predicts performance failures in one or more new builds associated with the computer program based on the established patterns.
US11151013B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for performance evaluation of Input/Output (I/O) intensive enterprise applications. Representative workloads may be generated for enterprise applications using synthetic benchmarks that can be used across multiple platforms with different storage systems. I/O traces are captured for an application of interest at low concurrencies and features that affect performance significantly are extracted, fed to a synthetic benchmark and replayed on a target system thereby accurately creating the same behavior of the application. Statistical methods are used to extrapolate the extract features to predict performance at higher concurrency level without generating traces at those concurrency levels. The method does not require deploying the application or database on the target system since performance of system is dependent on access patterns instead of actual data. Identical access patterns are re-created using only replica of database files of the same size as in the real database.
US11151011B2
A computing system includes a core system and an uncore system. The core system includes a packet generator unit configured to generate a data packet having a plurality of bytes defining a target packet size, and to output a first byte among the plurality of bytes at a packet delivery start time. The uncore system includes an input/output (I/O) bridge configured to connect an I/O component to the core system, and a packet monitor unit configured to monitor the bytes delivered from the packet generator unit to the I/O component. The packet monitor unit further determines a packet delivery end time after detecting a last byte of the data packet. The computing system determines a latency attributed to the uncore system and the I/O bridge based on the packet delivery start time and the packet delivery end time.
US11151008B2
A diagnostic system may utilize telemetry from a monitored system to infer information about the operation of various components systems within the monitored system. In embodiments, inferences may be drawn from a comparison of various component systems using a system of implication and exoneration. Exoneration is utilized to isolate faulty components from functioning components by comparing information between the systems, which may run in parallel. A dynamic grouping algorithm may eventually isolate faulty components and suggest the root cause as well as multiple distinct faults.
US11151005B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for writing, from a first node to a second node, a first portion of data from a memory pool in the first node defined by, at least in part, a first pointer. One or more input/output (IO) operations may be received while writing the first portion of data to the second node. Data from the one or more IO operations may be stored within the memory pool after the first pointer.
US11151000B2
Example embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for continuous data protection (CDP) and more specifically to an input and output (I/O) filtering framework and log management system to seek a near-zero recovery point objective (RPO).
US11150999B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device, and computer program product for scheduling backup jobs. There is provided a method of scheduling backup jobs, comprising: in response to detecting that a target backup job is generated, obtaining predetermined execution information of the target backup job; determining an execution priority of the target backup job based on the predetermined execution information of the target backup job; determining an execution priority of an existing backup job in a waiting queue; and adding the target backup job to the waiting queue based on the execution priority of the existing backup job and the execution priority of the target backup job. Through embodiments of the present disclosure, it enables better utilization of system resources to achieve the Recover Point Objective for important data, ensuring a Service Level Agreement.
US11150998B2
Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for dynamically changing a backup policy, the operations comprising: automatically detecting a change in a backup source system; automatically activating a new backup policy, wherein the new backup policy is determined based on the change in the backup source system and an old backup policy; and performing a backup session based on the new backup policy.
US11150994B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for creating a restore copy from a copy of source data in a repository having source data at different point-in-times. All the source data as of an initial point-in-time is copied to a repository. In response to completing point-in-time copies following the initial point-in-time, change information is transmitted to the repository indicating changed data in the source data that changed between the point-in-time of the point-in-time copy and a subsequent point-in-time. For each point-in-time copy, copying changed source data comprising source data indicated in the change information for the point-in-time copy as changed to the repository. A restore request is received to restore the source data as of a restore point-in-time. The source data in the repository as of the restore point-in-time is copied from the repository to a restore copy.
US11150986B2
One embodiment described herein provides a system and method for data compaction in a storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes. During operation, in response to determining that data compaction is triggered, the system regroups valid data from a first set of data chunks stored in the storage system into a second set of data chunks such that a respective data chunk from the second set of data chunks comprises contiguous valid data slices. The system further performs error-correction-coding protection on the second set of data chunks. A physical location associated with a respective valid data slice remains unchanged subsequent to the error-correction-coding protection.
US11150985B2
Decoders are provided for memory systems. A decoder includes a seed generator that generates seeds based on a physical address corresponding to a read request from a host; a descrambling module that receives a sequence from a storage area among, multiple storage areas, corresponding to the physical address, and descrambles the sequence using the seeds to generate multiple descrambled sequences; and a selector that selects one of descrambled sequences based on syndrome weight values of the descrambled sequences.
US11150980B2
When a node device (10-1) has detected a system failure in a cluster system (1), it determines whether the node device (10-1) is an avoidance-override device. Then, when the node device (10-1) determines that the own node device is an avoidance priority device, the node device (10-1) transmits a request signal to a node device (10-2) other than the node device (10-1). The request signal is a signal for requesting a report about a normal state and an abnormal state of the node device (10-2). Then, the node device (10-1) determines whether to execute a recovery operation of the own node device or to avoid executing a recovery operation of the own node device based on the report from the node device (10-2).
US11150977B1
A computer-implemented method for remediating computing resources may include (i) detecting a failure in a computer peripheral device and (ii) performing a remediation action in response to detecting the failure in the computer peripheral device. The remediation action may include selectively modifying a signal to a computing bus to which the computer peripheral device is connected. Selectively modifying the signal to the computing bus may simulate both unplugging the computer peripheral device from the computing bus without physically removing the computer peripheral device and also plugging back the computer peripheral device into the computing bus without physically reinserting the computer peripheral device into the computing bus. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11150968B2
An apparatus includes: a first memory configured to store thread information to be used in thread execution; a second memory configured to store the thread information saved from the first memory; and a processor configured to execute allocation processing. In an example, the allocation processing includes: judging based on an instruction to generate a thread whether the first memory has an empty area to store the thread information of the thread; allocating the empty area to the thread information of the thread when the first memory has the empty area; and generating identification information in response that the thread is generated, by using a first index and discrimination information, the first index being an index for identifying the thread information stored in the first memory, the discrimination information being information for discriminating the thread information stored in the first memory from the thread information saved to the second memory.
US11150957B1
A system and method for efficiently creating and managing application instances in distributed computing systems is disclosed. Controls are presented for specifying an application for instantiation, a data file for use with the application, and a destination for results from the application. Based on user input, graphical representations of available system resources in the distributed computing system are presented along with a logical topology for application instance creation to permit efficient user mapping of application primitives to available system resources. To further improve the user's ability to map, a hierarchical presentation of nodes illustrating resource and interconnection attributes may also be presented, and an error checking process may be performed to detect problems and offer suggested corrections based on application requirements and performance data collected from prior application executions.
US11150956B2
A set of resources required to process a data integration job is determined. In response to determining that the set of resources is not available, queue occupation, for each queue in the computing environment, is predicted. Queue occupation is a workload of queue resources for a future time based on a previous workload. A best queue is selected based on the predicted queue occupation. The best queue is the queue or queues in the computing environment available to be assigned to process the data integration job without preemption. The data integration job is processed using the best queue. It is determined whether a preemption event occurred causing the removal of resources from the best queue. A checkpoint is created in response to determining that a preemption event occurred. The checkpoint indicates the last successful operation completed and provides a point where processing can resume when resources become available.
US11150942B2
A communication device among a plurality of communication devices is used in a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system executes a target process including a plurality of partial processes by using the plurality of communication devices. The communication device includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a trail that represents a state of the plurality of partial processes. The processor selects, from among the plurality of partial processes, an uncompleted partial process with a number of equivalent execution results being less than a target number according to the trail. The processor executes the uncompleted partial process selected by the selector. The processor records an execution result obtained by the execution unit in the trail.
US11150941B2
An information processing system that includes at least one information processing apparatus and executes programs, each of which performs a predetermined process, the information processing system including a memory unit configured to store, for each of applications performing a sequence of processes using electronic data, program identification information identifying at least one program performing each process of the sequence of processes, flow information defining an execution order of the at least one program, and app identification information identifying each of the applications, while associating the program identification information, the flow information, and the app identification information, a registering unit, and a process executing unit, in receipt of a request including information related to the electronic data and the app identification information from a second apparatus, configured to cause the program identified by the program identification information in accordance with the execution order defined in the flow information.
US11150932B2
A system and method include classifying and assigning virtual disks accessed from compute only nodes. The method determines, by a management processor of a virtual computing system, characteristics for a plurality of virtual disks hosted on a plurality of hyper converged nodes in a cluster of nodes in the virtual computing system. The method further classifies, by the management processor, each of the plurality of virtual disks based on the determined characteristics and identifies, by the management processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks to host data for a virtual machine on a compute only node based on the classification to spread out input-output demand in the cluster, reducing probability of input-output bottlenecks and increasing cluster-wide storage throughput. The method also assigns, by the management processor, the identified virtual disk to host data for the virtual machine located on the compute only node.
US11150928B2
A system and method of translation bypass includes a hypervisor reserving a range of host virtual addresses. The hypervisor detects that a guest address is unmapped. The hypervisor determines a host virtual address. Determining the host virtual address includes adding the guest address to a host virtual address base offset. The host virtual address is within the range of host virtual addresses. The hypervisor maps the guest address to the host virtual address.
US11150922B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for using selectable elements to invoke an automated assistant at a computing device. While operating the computing device, a user may not be aware that the automated assistant can be invoked according to certain invocation phrases. In order to inform the user of the functionality of the automated assistant, the user can be presented with selectable elements that can initialize the automated assistant when selected. Furthermore, a selectable element can provide an invocation phrase in textual form so that the user is aware of their ability to invoke the automated assistant by speaking the invocation phrase. The selectable element can be presented at different devices associated with the user, and the automated assistant can be initialized at a device that is separate from the device where the selectable element is presented.
US11150913B2
The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a method, a device, and a terminal for accelerating the startup of an application. The method includes the steps of: creating a process of a preset application; suspending the process of the preset application after creating the process of the preset application; monitoring a start signal of the preset application; and activating the process of the preset application when the start signal is detected.
US11150912B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of root ports serving as roots of bus connection of a plurality of devices including boot devices from which legacy boot is executed to boot an operating system (OS). A processor included in the apparatus identifies a single boot device among the boot devices and a single root port connected to the single boot device, and allocates, as memory addresses to be used for memory mapped input and output, memory addresses with a bit width available during the legacy boot to devices connected to the identified single root port. The processor determines whether the memory addresses have been allocated to all devices connected to the single root port, and executes the legacy boot to boot the OS from the single boot device when the memory addresses have been allocated to all the devices connected to the single root port.
US11150909B2
In an approach for decreasing a rate of logic voltage level transitions in a multiplexor, one of a plurality of inputs to a multiplexor is selected with a first multiplexor select value at a first clock, wherein each input to the multiplexor is identified as one of i) valid and ii) invalid and the first multiplexor select value is latched in a latch until the first multiplexor select value is replaced by a second multiplexor select value. The second multiplexor select value is determined. The second multiplexor select value is applied to the multiplexor at a second clock if and only if the second multiplexor select value is different from the first multiplexor select value and the second multiplexor select value selects a valid input, wherein the second clock follows the first clock. Subsequent to applying the second multiplexor select value, the second multiplexor value is latched in the latch.
US11150904B2
A value to be used in register-indirect branching is predicted and concurrently stored in a selected location accessible to one or more instructions. The value may be a target address used by an indirect branch and the selected location may be a hardware register, providing concurrent prediction of branch addresses and the update of register contents.
US11150903B2
A memory cell that may be used for computation and processing array using the memory cell are capable to performing a logic operation including a boolean AND, a boolean OR, a boolean NAND or a boolean NOR. The memory cell may have a read port that has isolation circuits that isolate the data stored in the storage cell of the memory cell from the read bit line.
US11150902B2
Systems and methods of performing processor pipeline management include receiving an instruction for processing, determining that data in a first memory sub-group of a memory group needed to process the instruction is not available in a cache that ensures fixed latency access, and determining that the instruction should be put in a sleep state. The sleep state indicates that the instruction will not be reissued until the instruction is moved to a wakeup state. The methods also include associating the instruction with a ticket identifier (ID) that corresponds with a second memory sub-group of the memory group, and moving the instruction to the wakeup state based on the second memory sub-group of the memory group being moved into the cache.
US11150900B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an asynchronous packet network having a plurality of data transmission lines forming a data path transmitting operand data; a synchronous mesh communication network; a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array, each configurable circuit of the plurality of configurable circuits coupled to the asynchronous packet network and to the synchronous mesh communication network, each configurable circuit of the plurality of configurable circuits adapted to perform a plurality of computations; each configurable circuit of the plurality of configurable circuits comprising: a memory storing operand data; and an execution or write mask generator adapted to generate an execution mask or a write mask identifying valid bits or bytes transmitted on the data path or stored in the memory for a current or next computation.
US11150891B2
A data processing device has a processor which executes software directly from non-volatile memory. The processor has a runtime component which dynamically maps software element identifiers specified by the software to corresponding software elements in memory. Mapping information is used to determine which software elements identifiers correspond to which software elements. This provides a level of indirection which can be used to make software updates more efficient, by updating only parts of the software while leaving old parts of the software as they are. Updated software elements can be stored to memory and the mapping information updated to point to the new elements, while existing mappings may be retained.
US11150886B2
In one example of the technology, device information associated with a device upgrade and a plurality of devices includes risk parameters including values associated with a minimum health value that is associated with a minimum acceptable number of healthy devices among the plurality of devices and a confidence value associated with a minimum acceptable probability that the number of healthy devices among the plurality of devices is at least as great as the minimum health value; and, for each device a success probability value that is associated with a probability that the device will be healthy after the device upgrade is performed on the device. A Poisson binomial distribution is iteratively used to determine a set of devices among the plurality of device for which the largest possible number of devices are included in the set of devices while meeting the risk parameters. The set of devices is then upgraded.
US11150883B2
According to certain aspects, an information management system may be configured to: receive system information relating to one or more data storage requirements associated with a first user; access an electronic database containing deployment configuration rules usable in determining information management cell configurations; generate a recommended deployment configuration for an information management cell associated with the first user based at least in part on the system information and the deployment configuration rules; receive computing infrastructure information relating to computer hardware components within the information management cell that are available for use in implementing the recommended deployment configuration; and generate an installation script for the information management cell based at least in part on the recommended deployment configuration and the computing infrastructure information.
US11150875B2
An editing tool is described which has a memory storing a neural network having been trained to compute a change representation from pairs, each pair comprising a representation of a first version of a content item and a second version of the content item, and for each of the change representations, predict an updated content item from the change representation and the first version of the content item. The editing tool has a processor configured to receive an input content item and to compute an updated version of the input content item according to a change representation, using the neural network.
US11150874B2
Methods and systems that facilitate automatic generation of Application Programming Interface (API) specification from web traffic. Methods include obtaining a plurality of API requests and responses to the plurality of API requests. Methods include processing these API requests and responses to API requests to identify one or more attributes, such as, for example, variables, query parameters, response status codes, and response schemas. Methods include identifying variables using a tree data structure to represent resource paths. Methods include identifying query parameters based on resource items in resource paths. Methods include determining that the API call does not conform to the API specification by comparing one or more attributes of the API call with the attributes of the API specification.
US11150865B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to receive metadata for audio content associated with an audio content item for presentation in a news feed to be displayed on a screen of a computing device associated with a user. The metadata is transformed for display in the audio content item. The transformed metadata is displayed in the audio content item. In addition, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to present an audio content item in a news feed to be displayed on a screen of a computing device associated with a user. An input by the user for scrolling the news feed and the audio content item on the screen is received. A pop out player is presented in response to disappearance of the audio content item from the screen based on the scrolling.
US11150862B2
A flexible display apparatus which includes a flexible display panel, a glass panel, a lateral side outer shell, characterized in that two ends of the lateral side outer shell are detachably connected to the end faces of the two edges of the glass panel, the lateral side outer shell having an outer surface that extends from one of the two ends of the lateral side outer shell to another one of the two ends of the lateral side outer shell, the outer surface of the lateral side outer shell being in alignment with the outer surface of the glass panel at each of the two connections, such that the outer surface of the lateral side outer shell and the outer surface of the glass panel jointly form a continuous smooth outer surface of the tubular structure.
US11150861B1
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to specify a group of collaborators. Each collaborator in the group of collaborators is polled for window information for each window to be shared among the collaborators in a composite window collection. The window information includes end user device attributes for each collaborator and window metadata for each window to be shared among the collaborators in the composite window collection. Required parameters are calculated for each window to be shared among the collaborators in the composite window collection. The required parameters include window visibility criteria in the composite window collection. Sending clients in the group of collaborators are instructed on required parameters for each window to be shared among the collaborators in the composite window collection.
US11150859B2
A method and system for facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees, each conferee using a distinct interface device that includes a distinct display screen, the interface devices including at least a first interface device including a first display screen used by a first conferee, the method comprising the steps of presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, and during a conference content sharing session while content is being shared among conferees in at least the first and second sharing windows, identifying other display screens that may be used to present shared content, presenting screen selection options for other display screens via the first session interface, receiving a selection via the first session interface of at least one of the presented screen selection options and in response to the received selection, associating the display screen that is associated with the selected screen selection option with the first and second session interfaces for accessing session content during the on-going session.
US11150858B2
An electronic device includes a processor that is configured to, based on receiving a first partial image from among a plurality of partial images obtained by an input device by dividing an image, obtain first image quality information based on the first partial image and transmit the first image quality information to an external electronic device, based on receiving, from the external electronic device, second image quality information obtained from a second partial image among the plurality of the partial images, obtain image quality processing information corresponding to the image based on the first image quality information and the second image quality information, and process the first partial image based on the image quality processing information, and transmit, via the communication interface, the first partial image processed to one of a plurality of display modules included in an external display device.
US11150843B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. A storage device for protecting the storage device from physical movement may include a nonvolatile memory device, a sensor unit configured to collect information about physical movement of the storage device, and a memory controller configured to perform a device lock operation of protecting data in the nonvolatile memory device, based on a sensor value acquired from the sensor unit.
US11150841B2
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for detection of dropped commands based on a die status (ready/busy status) of a command received from a host device. The memory may include dies controlled by chip-enables (CE). After selecting a die using CE, the controller waits between a minimum and maximum time after receiving the command to query the die status, where the minimum time is the time by which the command is expected to begin execution and the maximum time is the shortest time by which the command is expected to complete execution. The controller queries the die status after waiting the time period. If the die status is ready when it should have read busy, the controller detects that the command associated with the data is dropped and requests the host device to reissue the command.
US11150830B2
File access statistics associated with a content file are maintained by a file tier agent of a secondary storage system. The content file is accessible via a primary storage system. A target storage tier corresponding to the file access statistics associated with the content file is determined according to one or more policies. At least a portion of data of the content file is migrated to the determined storage tier while accessibility of the content file via the primary storage system is maintained.
US11150822B2
Memory system for determining usage of a buffer based on I/O throughput and operation method thereof
A memory system includes a memory device including first memory blocks each including a memory cell storing a 1-bit data, and second memory blocks each including a memory cell storing a multi-bit data. The memory system further includes a controller configured to estimate data input/output speed of an operation requested by an external device and to determine, based on the estimated data input/output speed, a buffering ratio of pieces of buffered data, temporarily stored in the first memory blocks, to pieces of inputted data. The controller uses the buffer ratio to determine whether to program pieces of inputted data into the second memory blocks directly or to buffer the inputted data in the first memory blocks before programming it into the second memory blocks.
US11150819B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller in communication with the memory device to control an operation of the memory device, the controller allocating, among the plurality of memory blocks, a normal region and a redundancy region. The controller divides the normal region into a user region for storing user data, a user overprovisioning region for user data management, a map region for storing map data, and a map overprovisioning region for map data management, and divides the redundancy region into a reserved region and an additional map overprovisioning region, and wherein the reserved region, upon determination that a block in the normal region is a bad block, replaces the bad block.
US11150815B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a non-volatile memory manager. The non-volatile memory manager is configured to save, in a non-volatile memory section, information of a plurality of storage sections to be read after rebooting. The non-volatile memory section is configured to keep storing information even if power is off.
US11150813B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller. During a read operation to read data stored in the non-volatile memory as an N-dimensional error correction code, where N is two or more, the memory controller performs an error correction process on the N-dimensional error correction code iteratively, the error correction process including a first decoding process on a first decoding input to produce a first decoding output and a second decoding process on a second decoding input to produce a second decoding output. During the error correction process, upon determining that errors remaining in the second decoding output after a most recent iteration would not be correctable, the memory controller performs a next iteration using a first decoding input for the next iteration, which is a modified form of the second decoding output of the most recent iteration.
US11150804B2
In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to: output, for display at an output device, a graphical keyboard; receive an indication of a gesture detected at a location of a presence-sensitive input device, wherein the location of the presence-sensitive input device corresponds to a location of the output device that outputs the graphical keyboard; determine, based on at least one spatial feature of the gesture that is processed by the computing device using a neural network, at least one character string, wherein the at least one spatial feature indicates at least one physical property of the gesture; and output, for display at the output device, based at least in part on the processing of the at least one spatial feature of the gesture using the neural network, the at least one character string.
US11150803B2
This application provides a touch control method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: (S601) obtaining, by a terminal, a first touch operation entered by a user on a touchscreen; (S602, S603, and S604) and mapping, by the terminal when the first touch operation is performed on a first preset area in a target interface, the first touch operation to a second touch operation, so that a target application responds to the second touch operation, where the target interface is any interface that is presented by the target application and that covers the first preset area, and the target application is running in the foreground.
US11150802B2
A method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a gesture includes displaying a first GUI on the touchscreen, where the first GUI includes two or more entries, and the entry includes at least two interface elements; receiving, by the electronic device, a first gesture of a user on the touchscreen; and displaying a second GUI on the touchscreen in response to the first gesture, where the second GUI includes two or more entries, and the entry includes at least one interface element, where a quantity of entries in the second GUI is greater than a quantity of entries in the first GUI, and a quantity of interface elements in the second GUI is less than a quantity of interface elements in the first GUI.
US11150795B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a first interface in which a content feed of a first user is presented. The content feed can include one or more content items that were posted by other users, and the first interface being presented on a display screen of a computing device. A determination is made that the first user has performed at least one operation to scroll a content item included in the content feed, the content item being posted by a second user. A second interface is provided through which at least one content item included in an account feed of the second user is presented. The account feed including one or more content items that were posted by the second user.
US11150786B2
An information processing device detects a user's page feeding operation on content, determines a plurality of page feeding operations as a continuous operation if the page feeding operation has been performed again within a predetermined period from the page feeding operation, determines a page feeding operation not falling under the continuous operation as a one-shot operation, specifies first storage target page data according to the one-shot operation, makes a distribution request for page data not stored in the storage region among the specified first storage target page data, specifies second storage target page data according to a termination determination of the continuous operation, makes a distribution request for page data not stored in the storage region among the specified second storage target page data, stores page data distributed according to the distribution request in the storage region, and performs control for reading out and displaying the page data.
US11150785B2
An electronic document is obtained as a single unit of display data divided by a display size of a screen into a group of page data sets. A display configured to sense movement of a movable object in a vertical direction relative to the screen is used. The display is configured such that each of the group of page data sets of the electronic document is associated in a sequence with a respective different one of a group of detection levels within a movement detection range of the display. In response to sensing movement using the display, a page data set corresponding to a detection level in the movement detection range is displayed on the screen in accordance with the sensed movement. Display speed changes are automatically adjusted while displaying different ones of the group of page data sets in accordance with a moving speed of the sensed movement.
US11150782B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing content channels available to a user, where each content channel includes a communication space with at least one specified type of content and an audience with various audience members. The method may also include generating a channel overview that provides context information related to the content channels available to the user. The channel overview may include a navigable list of the accessed content channels. The method may further include receiving a selection input indicating that a specified content channel has been selected from the channel overview. The method may also include navigating to the selected content channel from the channel overview. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11150773B2
A position detector as one electronic part is configured by clamping and holding a stacking body obtained by stacking a display comprising a resin frame and an LCD part and a position detecting sensor by a back bezel and a front bezel. By using an auxiliary member, an upper surface frame part of the front bezel is kept from covering a part, in a loop coil, that is disposed outside an effective display area and relates to detection of an indicated position at an end part of the effective display area.
US11150771B2
A touch panel and a display device are provided. The touch panel includes a substrate; a base layer located on a side of the substrate, the base layer being provided with at least one groove, and each groove being located between two adjacent first sub-electrodes in a first direction and located between two adjacent second sub-electrodes in a second direction; at least one bridge electrode, each bridge electrode being located in the groove; a filling layer located on a side of the bridge electrode away from the groove; at least one connection electrode, each connection electrode being located on a side of the filling layer away from the groove, and configured to connect two adjacent first sub-electrodes in the first direction; where each bridge electrode is configured to connect two adjacent second sub-electrodes in the second direction.
US11150769B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method for the capacitive detection of at least a contact of a capacitive sensor by an operator. The method includes providing the capacitive sensor and providing an electronic evaluation system; applying a first constant electric potential to the counter electrode of the capacitive sensor; applying a second constant electric potential, which differs from the first potential, to the counter electrode of the capacitive sensor; calculating a first parameter from the first measured value and the second measured value; calculating a second parameter from the first measured value and the second measured value; and respectively comparing the first parameter and the second parameter with a predefined quantity.
US11150755B2
A touch and display sensing integrated circuit and a touch display device using the same are provided. The touch display device includes a display and touch sensing integrated circuit and a glass substrate. The glass substrate includes touch/display common voltage electrodes, pixels, pads and conductive lines. Each pixel includes Q sub-pixels. The pads are electrically connected to the touch and display sensing integrated circuit. The Pth and (P+Q+1)th pads are electrically connected to the touch/display common voltage electrode through the corresponding conductive lines, respectively. The (P+1)th to (P+Q)th pads are electrically connected to 1st to Qth sub-pixels of a pixel through the corresponding conductive lines, respectively. The pads are arranged in a first direction, and the conductive lines, which are electrically connected to the pads in a second direction, are non-interlaced.
US11150746B2
Wearable electronic systems having user interface mirroring based on device position are described herein. The wearable electronic systems include a first wearable electronic device having a display and a second wearable electronic device having a device orientation sensor. The device orientation sensor detects a device orientation of the second wearable electronic device and generates a device orientation signal in response to detecting the device orientation. The first wearable electronic device generates and displays an orientable user interface on its display in response to the first wearable electronic device receiving a first device orientation signal from the second wearable electronic device and dynamically reorients the orientable user interface in response to receiving a second device orientation signal from the first wearable electronic device. Methods of controlling an orientation of an orientable user interface presented on the display of a first wearable electronic device are also described herein.
US11150743B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a memory, sensors and a processor. The processor may implement the method, including detecting, by one or more sensors, first sensing information related to a user action, determining, by at least one processor, specific information corresponding to the first sensing information based on the first sensing information being a first type of sensing information, detecting, by the one or more sensors, second sensing information related to the user action, and executing a second function related to a first function, the second function corresponding to the specific information and the second sensing information, based on the second sensing information being a second type of sensing information for performing the first function.
US11150735B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a haptic touch button, a sensor and a processor. The haptic touch button is coupled to a perimeter of the housing. The sensor is located inside of the housing. The processor is located inside of the housing and communicatively coupled to the haptic touch button and the sensor. The processor translates an input from the haptic touch button and an input from the sensor into a finger action.
US11150734B2
Disclosed herein are structures, devices, methods and systems for providing haptic output on an electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a display portion, a housing pivotally coupled with the display portion and comprising a glass sheet that defines an input surface of the electronic device. The input surface can define a keyboard having a set of key regions arranged along the glass sheet. The electronic device may also include a haptic mechanism positioned beneath a key region of the set of key regions that includes a substrate defining a beam structure having first and second fixed ends, a spacer positioned along a first side of the beam structure and a piezoelectric element positioned along a second side of the beam structure. The piezoelectric element can be configured to deflect the beam structure to provide haptic output along the input surface.
US11150720B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are presented for a power management system of a multilane AI system architecture. The system may include an orchestrator configured to control power and other operations of a lane. An uber orchestrator manages the overall system, and may know all of the multilane systems within the AI virtual multilane system that need to be active at a given frequency and power envelope for given price, and performance constraints. The orchestrator of each lane knows the compute/logic blocks that need to be active for a given AI app model AI processing chain execution. The orchestrator may be configured to send commands to turn off power to certain components that are not utilized in performing an AI execution sequence, deactivate operation to the lane when its functions are completed, and also modulate the clock frequency of a lane to fit the computation demands while minimizing power usage.
US11150719B1
Systems involve a dividing unit configured to divide functionality in digital hardware portion through finite state machines (FSMs), protocol timers and PD message accelerator blocks for reducing code size such that their implementation combined with a low code-size firmware (FW) interacts, using a control unit operatively coupled to the dividing unit, with the hardware portion to provide updates in an USB-PD specification, wherein at least one of the FSMs configured to run at a predefined UI clock frequency to enable low active power to the system, a wake-up unit running at least on 4 times of UI clock frequency and detects data edge on configuration channel line to wake-up the entire system from sleep state, wherein a plurality of standard power saving mechanisms selected from clock gating and frequency reduction for clocks are implemented to enable low power corresponding to the system and bypass paths at each level of implementation.
US11150718B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying, by an operating system, a power consumption level associated with a platform configuration of the information handling system; identifying, by the operating system, a bandwidth associated with a flash memory medium of the information handling system; identifying a first battery charge level associated with a battery of the information handling system, the battery in a charging state; determining a first cache size based on the power consumption level associated with the platform configuration, the bandwidth associated with the flash memory medium, and the first battery charge level associated with the battery; and enabling a first portion of the cache memory based on the determined first cache size.
US11150717B2
A technique for dynamically adjusting power use of an input/output (I/O) interface of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an input/output (I/O) interface that facilitates electronic communications with a receiving electronic device, at a particular transmission rate that is dynamically changeable by the electronic device. Transmission power and transmission rate adjustment circuitry determines whether a step-down in a transmission power used for signal transmission at the particular transmission rate is desirable. When desirable, the transmission power is dynamically adjusted down one step, such that less power is used by the I/O interface during the electronic communications.
US11150710B2
One embodiment is directed towards an encapsulated device. The encapsulated device includes a device, and a first encapsulation covering the device. The first encapsulation has one or more exterior surfaces. One or more recesses in one or more of the exterior surfaces is configured to receive a second encapsulation.
US11150707B2
The disclosure relates to computer technical field, and provides a GPU with specific shape of casing and a host casing hardware configuration. Body of the casing of the GPU includes a rectangle of a notch, the notch is located on a corner of the rectangle and is in a right trapezoid shape. In the host casing hardware configuration, the 2U host casing is divided into front area and rear area; hard disk assembly and fan assembly are disposed on the front area; the rear area is divided into top area and bottom area; 4 GPUs and a GPU tray are disposed on the top area in a staggered relationship, and motherboard and CUP and motherboard connector disposed on the motherboard are disposed on bottom area. The disclosure provides an advantage of improving the arrangement density of the components in the host casing.
US11150705B1
A riser assembly and an electronic device. Riser assembly configured to install expansion card on chassis and electrically connected to motherboard. The riser assembly includes first mounting frame and riser card. First mounting frame is configured to be mounted on chassis. Riser card includes plate body, riser card connector and expansion card connector. Plate body includes first surface and second surface that face away from each other. Riser card connector is disposed on first surface of plate body and protrudes from plate body. Expansion card connector is disposed on second surface of plate body and protrudes from plate body. Plate body is fixed to first mounting frame. Riser card connector is configured to be electrically connected to motherboard via cable, and expansion card connector is configured to be electrically connected to expansion card.
US11150701B1
The present disclosure is for a layered protective case for a computing device with a latch mechanism. The protective case comprises a first protective rim fitted with a first shell layer to capture a first body of the computing device; a second protective rim fitted with a second shell layer to capture a second body of the computing device; and a latch mechanism to secure or to release the movable/foldable portion of the device as needed. Various embodiments are discussed to illustrate options of trade offs among functionality and several desired features.
US11150692B2
An electronic device may have a housing. The housing may be characterized by a vertical axis and may have housing structures such as cylindrical housing structures with a cylindrical surface. A speaker may be mounted in the housing to provide sound through openings in the housing structures. A visual output device may be mounted in the housing to provide light through openings in the housing structures. The visual output device may include an electrophoretic display, a light-emitting diode display, or other display with an array of pixels that display images or may include other components for emitting light. During operation, voice commands may be received by a microphone in the device and action taken based on the commands and other information. The action taken may include playing sound with the speaker and providing visual output with the visual output device.
US11150691B2
A display device includes a panel part and a protective window on the panel part. The panel part includes a base substrate, a supporting film disposed below the base substrate, a driving element disposed on the base substrate, the driving element including an active pattern, and a UV-blocking member disposed below the driving element.
US11150690B2
An example electronic device includes an outer housing, a shoulder connected to the outer housing, and a mounting assembly moveably coupled to the outer housing to mount a peripheral module. The mounting assembly has a rotatable arm biased to a first angular position. The rotatable arm is to remain in the first angular position when a first peripheral module is mounted, whereby the mounting assembly is moveable to extend the first peripheral module to a first clearance distance. The rotatable arm is rotatable to a second angular position in response to mounting a second peripheral module, whereby the mounting assembly is moveable to engage the rotatable arm against the first shoulder and to extend the second peripheral module to a second clearance distance that is less than the first distance.
US11150685B2
It is desirable to reduce power consumption without reducing a function in an electronic apparatus operating in a plurality of modes different in power consumption from one another. A processor operates in a normal mode, in which power consumption is higher, of two modes different in power consumption from each other, and stops operation in a power saving mode, in which the power consumption is lower, of the two modes. A control section outputs a power saving mode control command instructing an increase or decrease of a supply electric power to a digital circuit different from the processor in the power saving mode. A power source managing integrated circuit increases or decreases the supply electric power to the digital circuit in accordance with the power saving mode control command, and outputs the increased or decreased supply electric power.
US11150663B2
An autonomous driving system could create or exacerbate a hazardous driving situation due to incorrect machine learning, algorithm design, sensor limitations, environmental conditions or other factors. This technology presents solutions that use machine learning to detect when the autonomous driving system is in this state e.g., erratic or reckless driving and other behavior, in order to take remedial action to prevent a hazard such as a collision.
US11150656B2
Systems and techniques for autonomous vehicle decision making may include training an autonomous vehicle decision making database by capturing an image including a first training object and a second training object during a training phase. The first training object may be classified as a first class and the second training object may be classified as a second class based on a driver gaze location associated with a driver of the vehicle. The database may be built based on classification of the first training object and the second training object. The autonomous vehicle decision making database may be utilized to classify a first object as a first class and a second object as a second class during an operation phase. A processor may perform a first computation associated with the first object based on the classification of the first object and the classification of the second object.
US11150650B2
An approach is provided for operating a vehicle using vulnerable road user data. The approach, for example, involves determining a road link on which the vehicle is traveling or expects to travel. The approach also involves querying a geographic database for a vulnerable road user attribute of the road link. The approach further involves providing a notification to activate or deactivate an autonomous driving mode of the vehicle, a vehicle sensor of the vehicle, or a combination thereof while the vehicle travels on the road link based on determining that the vulnerable road user attribute meets a threshold criterion.
US11150642B2
An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes: a first equipment state information acquiring unit that acquires first equipment state information indicating a state of equipment of a remotely driven vehicle which is to be remotely driven; and a control unit that controls a remotely driving apparatus that is to remotely drive the remotely driven vehicle, the control being performed based on the first equipment state information and second equipment state information indicating a state of equipment of the remotely driving apparatus.
US11150633B2
A method for providing a 3D shape model for a new process in an additive manufacturing system includes receiving an unoptimized 3D model of one or more shapes based on a first process (P1); receiving deviation information based on P1; baseline deviation modeling of P1 based on the received unoptimized 3D model and the received deviation information to thereby generate an optimized 3D model for the one or more shapes based on P1; applying a transfer function that connects deviation information of P1 to deviation information of a second process (P2); receiving deviation information based on P2; adaptively modeling the deviations of P2 based on the transformed baseline model and the deviation information of P2; generating an optimized 3D model for the one or more shapes based on P2; and generating a compensation plan for additively manufacturing the one or more shapes between P1 and P2.
US11150629B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for determining, tracking, and anticipating risk in a manufacturing facility are presented. In example embodiments, the method includes generating a risk data model for the manufacturing facility based on correlations between historical staffing conditions of the manufacturing facility and deviations from existing manufacturing procedures. The method further includes receiving projected operational data that includes information related to anticipated future staffing conditions of the manufacturing facility. The method further includes calculating a risk score based on the projected operational data using the risk data model. The method further includes causing presentation of a user interface that includes a display of the risk score.
US11150620B2
Disclosed herein are related to a device, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling building equipment. In one aspect, disclosed is a mobile gateway that receives a user input to change a status of a device of the building equipment. The mobile gateway device generates a request action message indicating the user input based on an application programming interface of the mobile gateway device. The request action message conforms to a building automation and control network (BACnet) protocol. The mobile gateway device transmits, through an interne protocol network, the request action message conforming to the BACnet protocol to a BACnet controller. The BACnet controller operates the device according to the request action message conforming to the BACnet protocol.
US11150615B2
An optimization device includes: a state hold circuit that holds values of state variables included in an evaluation function that represents energy; an objective function calculation circuit that calculates an energy change value in an objective function included in the evaluation function for each of state transitions when a state transition occurs in response to a change in any of the values of the state variables; a constraint term calculation circuit that calculates a constraint term evaluation value, which is an evaluation value of a constraint term included in the evaluation function, for each of the state transitions; a temperature control circuit that controls a temperature value that indicates a temperature; and a transition control circuit that determines stochastically whether to accept any of the state transitions based on the temperature value, a random number value, and a sum of the change value and the constraint term evaluation value.
US11150614B2
The disclosure relates to a content-based control system for controlling a smart home. The control system includes a client terminal connectable to a media content provider and a home automation interface operable to connect with a smart home controller. The system may allow settings and ambience to be controlled according to current media content being consumed and the media consumers social environment.
US11150613B2
A control system may include a display device and a processor that receives one or more inputs from the display device. The processor may generate a cause and effect visualization to be depicted on the display device, such that the cause and effect visualization represents a cause and effect logic configured to control one or more operations of a first set of industrial devices based one or monitored conditions. The processor may receive the inputs via the display device, such that the inputs include one or more configuration settings associated with the operations of the first set of industrial devices, the monitored conditions, or any combination thereof. The processor may then control the one or more operations of the first set of industrial devices based on the cause and effect logic and the inputs.
US11150612B2
A portable radio-controlled watch includes a watch glass, an antenna that is formed on a backside of a circumference of the watch glass so as to be along the circumference, a feeder electrode adjacent to the antenna, a receiving circuit, an antenna connecting line that is at least a part of a connection circuit connecting the feeder electrode with the receiving circuit, where the antenna connecting line is directly connected to a back surface of the feeder electrode and extends in a direction away from the watch glass, and a dielectric that is disposed below the antenna and covers at least a part of the antenna in a plan view.
US11150608B2
Method for treatment of timepiece components on a rack including the steps consisting in: equipping said rack with grippers made of the same shape memory alloy, and each arranged to return to a reference shape above a martensite finish temperature specific to said alloy; bringing said rack to a temperature higher than said martensite finish temperature; bringing said rack equipped with said grippers to a preparation temperature; loading said rack with a batch of said components to be treated; performing said treatment on said rack loaded with said batch; unloading said rack. Rack comprising grippers made of shape memory alloy, arranged to return to a reference shape above a martensite finish temperature specific to said alloy.
US11150607B2
A magnetic device for centring a shaft on a predetermined axis in a clockwork movement includes at least one first magnetic bearing provided with a magnet to exert an attractive force on a first ferromagnetic end pivot of the shaft. The first magnetic bearing includes a central part made of soft ferromagnetic material mounted between the magnet and the first end pivot of the shaft. The central part is positioned centrally in a washer made of non-magnetic material so as to centre the magnetic field flux generated by the permanent magnet through the central part in order to magnetically attract the first end pivot of the shaft on the predetermined axis. The diameter of the central part can be identical to, or 0 to 20% less than, or 0 to 20% greater than, the diameter of the first end pivot.
US11150606B2
A timepiece includes a locking device capable of blocking the translation of a valve or of a control member in the position the closest to the central axis of the case. The locking device includes a blocking element capable of undergoing translational displacement along a radial axis between a locking position and an unlocking position, where the member is respectively blocked or free to move in translation, a part mounted such that it can move in rotation about the central axis of the case and intended to be set in rotation by a user, drive device linking the angular displacement of the part mounted such that it can move in rotation to the translational displacement of the blocking element between the locking and unlocking positions.
US11150599B2
A support assembly is disclosed. The support assembly may comprise a component to interact with a photoconductive imaging unit, the component being rotatable relative to the photoconductive imaging unit. The support assembly may comprise an air bearing positioned adjacent to a surface of the photoconductive imaging unit, the air bearing to generate a cushion of gas to support the component at a defined distance from the photoconductive imaging unit. A method and a print apparatus are also disclosed.
US11150598B2
An engaging portion 30 is provided which is engageable with a portion-to-be-engaged 11b a displaceable integrally with a developer receiving portion 11 with a mounting operation of a developer supply container 1 to displace 11 in an upward direction U to bring a receiving opening into communication with a discharge opening. An engaging portion 30 includes a first engagement surface 31a extending in the upward direction U as going toward a developer accommodating portion of the developer supply container 1, and a second engagement surface 32a provided at a position closer to the developer accommodating portion than the first engagement surface 31a. When the receiving opening in communication with a shutter opening, a height of an end of the first engagement surface 31a close to the developer accommodating portion is higher than the second engagement surface 32a.
US11150597B1
A powder processing apparatus includes a processing engine, a carrying region forming unit, a door, a powder storage unit. The processing engine is mounted inside an apparatus housing. The processing engine includes one or plural processing units each at least including a movable powder carrier that carries powder, and a powder supply unit. The carrying region forming unit forms a region in the powder carrier where powder can be carried. The door opens and closes an opening formed in a side wall of the apparatus housing. The powder storage unit stores the powder. The powder storage unit moves along with the opening and closing of the door. When the door is opened, an insertion and extraction path that is wide enough to insert and extract the processing engine is ensured in the opening, excluding a region blocked by the powder storage unit that moves along with the door.
US11150589B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; an exposure portion configured to expose the photosensitive member to light depending on image information to form a latent image on the photosensitive member; a developing portion configured to develop the latent image into a toner image with toner; and a transfer portion configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a recording material. The image forming apparatus changes a surface movement speed of the photosensitive member at timing prior to predetermined timing, when a moving speed of a recording material at the transfer portion changes, by a predetermined time.
US11150587B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a first sheet conveyance path, a second sheet conveyance path that branches from the first sheet conveyance path at a branch portion on the first sheet conveyance path and merges with the first sheet conveyance path at a merging portion, and a control unit. The control unit controls a guide unit so as to guide a first sheet conveyed first in the sheet bundle to be processed by a sheet processing unit to the second sheet conveyance path, and guide a second sheet following the first sheet to the first sheet conveyance path to merge the first and second sheets in an overlapping manner at the merging portion, and guide at least one of sheets following the second sheet among a plurality of sheets constituting the sheet bundle to the second sheet conveyance path.
US11150586B2
An image forming system includes a first feeding portion configured to feed a recording sheet, a second feeding portion configured to feed an inserting sheet from one of a plurality of supporting portions, and a controller configured to execute a determination process of determining whether or not there is a supporting portion usable as a new feeding source other than a supporting portion serving as a current feeding source of an inserting sheet. The controller is capable of switching between first control and second control in which a feeding process of a recording sheet is executed respectively in a first mode and a second mode in a case where it has been determined in the determination process that there is no supporting portion usable as the new feeding source.
US11150585B2
An image forming apparatus comprises a tray, a conveyor, a detector and a movement mechanism. The tray accommodates at least one document. The conveyor conveys the document placed on the tray. The detector detects that the document is placed on the tray. The movement mechanism moves the tray from a first position to a second position closer to the conveyor than the first position based on the detection that the document is placed on the tray, and after moving the tray from the first position to the second position, moves the tray to the first position based on a setting of a mixed stacking mode in which mixing of the documents with different sizes on the tray is permitted.
US11150583B2
A belt device includes an endless belt, a plurality of support rotators configured to support the endless belt, and a support configured to support shaft portions of the plurality of support rotators. The support has an attaching and detaching path through which the shaft portions of the plurality of support rotators pass in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of at least one of the plurality of support rotators when the shaft portions of the plurality of support rotators are detached from the support.
US11150571B2
A roller charging device may include a Y-shaped electrically conductive brush and a screw terminal coupling the Y-shaped electrically conductive brush to a housing of the roller charging device and electrically coupling the Y-shaped electrically conductive brush to a power source. A printing fluid developer may include a plurality of rollers and a plurality of Y-shaped brushes to each contact one of the plurality of rollers wherein each of the Y-shaped brushes provides an electrical charge to each of the plurality of rollers.
US11150569B2
Provided are a ferrite carrier core material for an electrophotographic developer having a full length L1 of grain boundary and a circumference length L2 of the core material in a cross-section of the core material, and satisfying a relationship of 2≤L1/L2≤9; a carrier for an electrophotographic developer including the ferrite carrier core material and a coating layer containing a resin provided on a surface of the ferrite carrier core material; and an electrophotographic developer including the carrier and a toner.
US11150568B2
A toner including toner particles comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a copolymer toner additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the toner particles, the copolymer toner additive comprising a first monomer having a high carbon to oxygen ratio of from about 3 to about 8; and a second monomer comprising two or more vinyl groups, wherein the second monomer is present in the copolymer in an amount of from greater than about 8 percent by weight to about 60 percent by weight, based on the weight of the copolymer; wherein the copolymer toner additive has a volume average particle diameter of from about 20 nanometers to less than about 70 nanometers. An emulsion aggregation toner process including the copolymer as a toner surface additive.
US11150564B1
An EUV lithographic apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly for cleaning a wafer for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithographic apparatus. The wafer stage includes a measurement side and an exposure side. The particle removing assembly includes particle removing electrodes, an exhaust device and turbomolecular pumps. The particle removing electrodes is configured to direct debris from the chamber by suppressing turbulence such that the debris can be exhausted from the wafer stage to the outside of the processing apparatus. In some embodiments, turbomolecular pumps are turned off in the measurement side of the wafer stage so that an exhaust flow can be guided to an exposure side of the wafer stage. In some embodiments, the speed of voltage rise to the electrodes of the wafer chuck is adjusted.
US11150563B2
A technique of measuring a parameter of a patterning process is disclosed. In one arrangement, a target, formed by the patterning process, is illuminated. A sub-order diffraction component of radiation scattered from the target is detected and used to determine the parameter of the patterning process.
US11150561B2
A method for collecting information in image-error compensation is provided. The method includes providing a reticle having a first image structure and a second image structure; moving a light shading member to control a first exposure field; projecting a light over the first exposure field; recording an image of the first image structure after the light is projected; moving the light shading member to control a second exposure field; projecting the light over the second exposure field; and recording an image of the second image structure after the light is projected.
US11150556B2
This is to provide a polymer of a polyimide precursor which is soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution, and capable of using a base resin of a positive type and negative type photosensitive resin composition which is capable of forming a fine pattern and obtaining high resolution. Also provided is a positive type and negative type photosensitive resin composition using such a polymer of a polyimide precursor. Further provided are a patterning process and a method of forming a cured film using the composition. Provided is a polymer of a polyimide precursor which comprises a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), wherein, X1, R1, Z, a repeating number “s”, Y1, Rf, a repeating number “n” and “k” represent the same meanings as mentioned in the specification.
US11150554B2
A resist composition including a base component (A) which exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure, the acid-generator component (B) including at least one acid generator (B1) represented by general formula (b1) shown below, at least one acid generator (B2) represented by general formula (b2) shown below, and at least one acid generator (B3) represented by general formula (b3) shown below (wherein IV to R3 each independently represents a cyclic group which may have a substituent, a chain alkyl group, or a chain alkenyl group; Y1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group containing an oxygen atom; M1+ to M3+ represents a monovalent organic cation; n represents an integer of 1 to 4; m represents an integer of 0 to 4; provided that, when m is 0, the carbon atom adjacent to the sulfur atom within R2 has no fluorine atom bonded thereto). R1—Y1—(CF2)n—SO3−M1+ (b1) R2—(CH2)m—SO3−M2+ (b2) R3—COO−M3+ (b3)
US11150551B2
A computer-readable medium includes a program code that, when executed by a processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to divide a layout of a semiconductor chip into a plurality of patches, generate a plurality of segments from a layout of each of the plurality of patches, wherein a first patch of the plurality of patches includes first segments and a second patch of the plurality of patches includes second segments, calculate hash values respectively corresponding to the first segments and the second segments by using a hash function, calculate bias values of segments having a first hash value from among the first segments, calculate a representative value based on the bias values, and apply the representative value to the segments having the first hash value from among the first segments.
US11150546B2
A light source apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a first radiator configured to hold the first light source and to radiate heat from the first light source, and a second radiator configured to hold the second light source and to radiate heat from the second light source. The first radiator includes a plurality of first radiating members to be cooled by air introduced from a first direction and superposed in a second direction. The second radiator includes a plurality of second radiating members to be cooled by air introduced from the first direction and superposed in a third direction. Each of the second direction and the third direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The second direction and the third direction are different from each other.
US11150544B2
A digital microform imaging apparatus includes a bracket movably coupled to a chassis. A microform media support is coupled to the bracket and includes a frame and a window supported by the frame. An illumination source is provided to direct light through the window of the microform media support along an optical axis. An optical sensor is positioned along the optical axis. A motor is operatively engaged with the microform media support to move the bracket and frame relative to the chassis along an axis perpendicular to the optical axis.
US11150538B2
A cap attached to an article having an opening, the cap including a cap body and at least one locking member that is slidably attached inward and outward from a center and comes in press-contact with an inner circumferential surface of the article to be locked to the cap body, in which the locking member slidably engages with other locking members on both sides, slides inward toward the center, thereby pushes the other locking members inward, and releases the locking.
US11150537B2
The present disclosure introduces an optical component attachable to a mobile communications device and operable to spectrally filter images taken by a camera of the mobile device. Systems introduced herein include the optical component, the mobile device, and an illumination source for directing light at a specific wavelength/intensity into a human mouth, such that images taken by the camera record human mouth tissue responses to the light for cancer screening purposes. Such cancer screening may also utilize a database of other response images from other patients, which may be transmitted to the database by the mobile device and/or other mobile devices.
US11150530B1
A manufacturing method of a display panel including following steps is provided. Providing a substrate. Forming a first metal layer including a first storage electrode on the substrate. Forming a first insulating layer on the first metal layer. Forming a second metal layer including a second storage electrode on the first insulating layer. Forming a second insulating layer on the second metal layer. Forming a third metal layer including a third storage electrode on the second insulating layer. A first storage capacitance is constituted by the first storage electrode and the second storage electrode as well as the first insulating layer located between the first storage electrode and the second storage electrode, and a second storage capacitance is constituted by the second storage electrode and the third storage electrode as well as the second insulating layer located between the second storage electrode and the third storage electrode.
US11150525B2
An active matrix substrate includes: a substrate; pixel electrodes in a matrix; switching elements; common electrodes; a terminal group including first terminals and second terminals and having a length in the row direction smaller than a length of a region of the switching elements in the row direction and a region of the common electrodes in the row direction; switching element wires; and common electrode wires. The terminal group is disposed at an end of the substrate in the column direction. The terminal group includes: a center terminal group in the middle of the terminal group and including the first terminals arranged in the row direction; and end terminal groups at either end of the terminal group and including the first terminals and the second terminals in the row direction. Each of the second terminals is between the first terminals adjacent to each other in the row direction.
US11150524B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base substrate, a switching element including a semiconductor layer, a power supply line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, a capacitance electrode positioned between the base substrate and the pixel electrode and electrically connected to the power supply line, a first interlayer insulating film positioned between the pixel electrode and the capacitance electrode, a common electrode, and an electrophoretic element positioned between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. An edge of the capacitance electrode overlaps the pixel electrode over the entire periphery thereof.
US11150517B2
Provided is an optical element in which transmission of incident light with an angle in a predetermined direction is allowed and the brightness of transmitted light is high. The optical element is formed using a composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound rotates in one direction; and the optically-anisotropic layer has regions in which the optical axis is twisted in a thickness direction of the optically-anisotropic layer and rotates, the regions having different magnitudes of twist angles of the rotation in a plane.
US11150515B2
An image display device includes a circuit board having a surface, partitioning members provided on the surface of the circuit board, a discontinuous portion formed between the partitioning members, light-emitting elements provided on the surface of the circuit board, a liquid crystal panel provided on the partitioning members so that the partitioning members are provided between the liquid crystal panel and the surface of the circuit board, and a control circuit. At least one of the light-emitting elements is provided in each of the partitioning members to be surrounded by each of the partitioning members which is configured to reflect light emitted from the at least one of the light-emitting elements. The control circuit is configured to control the liquid crystal panel to improve uneven light distributions of the light-emitting elements caused by the discontinuous portion.
US11150514B2
A reflective plate and a manufacturing method thereof, a direct-lit backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The reflective plate includes: a reflection layer and a photoluminescent layer. The reflection layer includes a peripheral portion, and the peripheral portion includes an inner region and an edge region outside the inner region; and the photoluminescent layer is on the peripheral portion of the reflection layer, covers at least part of the edge region and is configured to emit light under light irradiation.
US11150512B2
When at least one scope of 0.5 mm square or more of a surface of an optical sheet having the unevenness is measured, height data of each of a plurality of pixels of an image obtained is determined, an approximated surface is calculated, from the height data of each pixel, for a minute region of 100 μm2 or less, and a calculation is repeatedly performed to obtain an inclination angle between: (i) a flat surface appearing after the unevenness is imaginarily removed and: (ii) the approximated surface, while two-dimensionally shifting the minute region at equal intervals along the flat surface by using at least one of the pixels as a unit to obtain a plurality of minute regions, a total area of some of the minute regions each having the inclination angle of 30° or more, accounts for 30% or more of a total area of all the minute regions.
US11150505B2
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first base substrate and an optical sensor disposed on the first base substrate. The second substrate includes a second base substrate, a black matrix disposed on the second base substrate, and a light collecting structure disposed on a side of the black matrix adjacent to the first substrate. The optical sensor and the light collecting structure overlap each other in a direction perpendicular to the display panel. The light collecting structure includes at least one transparent protrusion protruded along a direction perpendicular to a surface of the first or second substrate and from the second substrate to the first substrate. The light collecting structure has a refractive index larger than the liquid crystal layer.
US11150502B2
A display substrate includes a substrate, a first insulator, a metal film, a second insulator, an alignment film, a line, and film forming area defining recesses. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The metal film is disposed upper than the first insulator. The second insulator is disposed upper than the metal film and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first insulator. The alignment film is disposed upper than the second insulator at least in the display area. The line extends to straddle the display area and the non-display area and includes a section of the metal film. The film forming area defining recesses are provided in the non-display area to extend to cross the line and include recesses sections of the second insulator to define a forming area of the alignment film.
US11150497B2
A composite substrate for an electro-optic element is disclosed. The composite substrate includes: an electro-optic crystal substrate having an electro-optic effect; a low-refractive-index layer being in contact with the electro-optic crystal substrate and having a lower refractive index than the electro-optical crystal substrate; and a support substrate bonded to the low-refractive-index layer at least via a bonding layer. A plurality of interfaces located between the low-refractive-index layer and the support substrate includes at least one rough interface having a roughness that is larger than a roughness of an interface between the electro-optic crystal substrate and the low-refractive-index layer.
US11150471B2
A diffuser for use in a head up display formed of an array of microlenses. The microlenses comprises both concave and convex microlenses to reduce surface discontinuities between adjacent lenses.
US11150467B2
Provided is an optical system consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, in which each of the first lens unit and the second lens unit includes a negative lens. A focal length (fG1N) of a negative lens (G1N) arranged closest to the object side in the first lens unit, a focal length (fGLN) of a negative lens (GLN) having a largest negative refractive power in the second lens unit, a focal length (f) of the optical system, a focal length (f1) of the first lens unit, and other factors are appropriately set.
US11150464B2
An optical scanning device includes a mirror part having a mirror surface configured to reflect light, N support cantilevers supporting the mirror part swingably, N drive cantilevers, and a plurality of driving piezoelectric elements secured on N drive cantilevers. The mirror part precesses by setting the frequency of AC voltage applied to each of a plurality of piezoelectric elements to a determined common value and setting the phase of AC voltage applied to each of a plurality of piezoelectric elements to a value determined according to the position of each piezoelectric element.
US11150446B2
This disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power, the second lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, the third lens element with positive refractive power, the fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the fifth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface, and both object-side surface and image-side surface being aspheric, wherein a stop and an image sensor disposed on an image plane are also provided. By such arrangements, the image pickup optical system satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.
US11150427B2
Distribution box for Fiber To The Antenna (FTTA) systems comprising: an upper compartment and a lower compartment separated one from one another, the lower compartment being provided with a sealable entry point for a pre-terminated hybrid cable comprising at least one electric conductor and at least one optical fiber, a plurality of electrical connectors for electrical power conductors and at least one optical connector for optical fiber being arranged within the lower compartment, the upper compartment comprising one or more connection points for hybrid jumper cables.
US11150426B2
A fiber optic distribution cable includes a central inner jacket formed from one of a polyvinyl chloride or a low smoke zero halogen material, a plurality of optical fibers disposed within the inner jacket, and a plurality of first strength members disposed within the inner jacket. The fiber optic distribution cable further includes an outer jacket surrounding the central inner jacket, the outer jacket formed from the one of the polyvinyl chloride or the low smoke zero halogen material, and a plurality of second strength members disposed between the outer jacket and the central inner jacket. A fiber density of the cable is greater than 0.65 fibers per square millimeter.
US11150423B2
Described herein are photonic systems and devices including a optical interface unit disposed on a bottom side of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to receive light from an emitter of the PIC. A top side of the PIC includes a flip-chip interface for electrically coupling the PIC to an organic substrate via the top side. An alignment feature corresponding to the emitter is formed with the emitter to be offset by a predetermined distance value; because the emitter and the alignment feature are formed using a shared processing operation, the offset (i.e., predetermined distance value) may be precise and consistent across similarly produced PICs. The PIC comprises a processing feature to image the alignment feature from the bottom side (e.g., a hole). A heat spreader layer surrounds the optical interface unit and is disposed on the bottom side of the PIC to spread heat from the PIC.
US11150419B2
A method of processing at least one ferrule is disclosed. The at least one ferrule includes an end face. The method includes engaging the end face of the at least one ferrule and an abrasive element with each other at the mating interface; moving the at least one ferrule and the abrasive element relative to each other; and tracing a spiral path in the abrasive element due to the relative movement between the at least one ferrule and the abrasive element. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
US11150413B2
A method of manufacturing fiber optic connectors includes precision molding optical ferrule assemblies around optical fibers for use in the connectors. The optical ferrule assemblies are over-molded in two-parts: a ferrule and a hub. The ferrule is molded around a coated section of fiber and a fiber tip is formed (e.g., using a laser) at a stripped section of the optical fiber at a location axially spaced from the ferrule. The fiber is pulled into the ferrule to align the tip and the hub is formed to complete the ferrule assembly.
US11150404B2
A method includes bonding an electronic die to a photonic die. The photonic die includes an opening. The method further includes attaching an adapter onto the photonic die, with a portion of the adapter being at a same level as a portion of the electronic die, forming a through-hole penetrating through the adapter, with the through-hole being aligned to the opening, and attaching an optical device to the adapter. The optical device is configured to emit a light into the photonic die or receive a light from the photonic die.
US11150403B2
Small-radius coated optical fibers having large mode field diameter and low bending losses. The coated fiber may have an outer radius of 110 μm or less, while providing a mode field diameter of 9.0 μm or greater and a bending loss when wrapped about a 15 mm mandrel of 0.5 dB/km or less at wavelength of 1550 nm. The coated fiber may have a mode field diameter of 9.2 μm or greater and may have a bending loss at 1550 nm of 0.25 dB/km or less when wrapped about a 20 mm mandrel or a bending loss at 1550 nm of 0.02 dB/km or less when wrapped about a 30 mm mandrel.
US11150400B2
An illumination device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements (LEEs); a light guide extending in a forward direction from a first end to a second end to receive at the first end light emitted by the LEEs and to guide the received light to the second end; an optical extractor optically coupled to the second end to receive the guided light, the optical extractor including a redirecting surface to reflect a first portion of the guided light, the reflected light being output by the optical extractor in a backward angular range, and the redirecting surface having one or more transmissive portions to transmit a second portion of the guided light in the forward direction; and one or more optical elements optically coupled to the transmissive portions, the optical elements to modify the light transmitted through the transmissive portions and to output the modified light in a forward angular range.
US11150398B2
An edge-lit type backlight module and a display device are provided. The edge-lit type backlight module includes a light guide plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, as well as a first end and a second end opposite to each other, the first end and a second end having a distribution orientation parallel to the first surface; a light source disposed on the first surface of the light guide plate and being close to the first end of the light guide plate; a metal grating disposed on the second surface of the light guide plate, an orthographic projection of the metal grating on the first surface covering an orthogonal projection of the light source on the first surface.
US11150395B2
A light guide guides light emitted by a light source to a portion around an illumination target. The light guide includes a light incident portion that the light emitted by the light source enters; a light emitting portion that is provided around the illumination target and emits the light that has entered; and a light distributing portion that distributes the light that has entered from the light source directly toward the light emitting portion and has at least a curved surface shape. The light incident portion is arranged at a position facing a light emitting surface of the light source and has a width so as to cover at least the light emitting surface of the light source.
US11150391B2
A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate might be desirable for WGP flexibility or to aid in further processing of the WGP. Wires of the WGP can include flexible ribs to minimize or avoid defects such as cracks in the WGP. An etch stop layer in the wires can allow formation of the flexible ribs without delamination of a reflective portion of the wires. The WGP embodiments herein can have improved flexibility, stretchability, compressibility, or combinations thereof with reduced cracking, collapse, and delamination of wires or ribs.
US11150385B2
An optical system includes, disposed in sequence starting on an object side along an optical axis: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein: the second lens group moves along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinity-distance object to a short-distance object; and a following conditional expression is satisfied: 1.00
US11150377B2
A method is described for subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir characterization including receiving a time-lapse electromagnetic (EM) dataset and a flow dataset; inverting the time-lapse EM dataset using a parametric inversion that models steel well casings to determine a volume of fluid-changed reservoir; inverting the time-lapse EM dataset and the flow dataset using a joint inversion that honors the volume of the fluid-changed reservoir to determine relative permeability and capillary pressure; and characterizing flow characteristics in the volume of the fluid-changed reservoir. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US11150374B2
A method and system for identifying a deformation. The method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool in a pipe string, performing a logging operation with the electromagnetic logging tool, transmitting an electromagnetic field from a transmitter, energizing the casing string with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current, measuring the eddy current with at least one receiver, processing the measurements of the eddy current to find a point-wise eccentricity between the casing string and the pipe string, identifying a zone with the deformation based at least in part on the point-wise eccentricity, determining at least one characteristic of the deformation, and making a wellbore decision related to an integrity of the casing string based on the at least one characteristic of the deformation or the point-wise eccentricity. The system may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool which may comprise a transmitter and at least one receiver.
US11150373B2
The highly valuable properties of resistivity and dielectric constant of a geological formation may be determined using an induction measurement, even for a geological formation with bed boundary or dipping effects, using a one-dimensional (1D) formation model. Induction measurements may be obtained in a wellbore through the geological formation using one or more downhole tools. One or more processors may be used to perform an inversion to estimate resistivity and dielectric constant values of the geological formation. The inversion may be performed using the induction measurements and a one-dimensional model that includes a number of geological layers.
US11150359B2
A Detection element includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, substrate comprising: a substrate provided with a through hole having inner diameters that differ from each other at two points along the thickness of substrate; a through electrode disposed in through hole; a first electrode connected to through electrode and disposed on the first surface; a patterned electrode connected to through electrode and disposed on the second surface; and a second electrode disposed on the first surface and spaced apart from the first electrode.
US11150356B2
Methods and apparatus for generating a test signal for a PNT configuration, and for testing a PNT configuration are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of using one or more GNSS jamming signal detectors (100) to detect at least three different types of threat signal, each being an RF-based man-made GNSS jamming signal, and recording, to a database, information for the threat signals; receiving, from the database, information for at least one of the threat signals; generating a corresponding threat signal from the received information; and combining the corresponding threat signal with a PNT signal via a signal combiner to generate the test signal.
US11150354B2
Systems and methods for modifying a fitness plan are disclosed. The method may include providing a user input; receiving a user selection; identifying electronic plan data stored in a database; receiving the electronic plan data on a portable electronic device; generating an electronic schedule of fitness activities based on the electronic plan data; receiving a second user selection related to the electronic schedule; and modifying the electronic schedule based on the second user selection.
US11150349B2
The present disclosure relates to a FMCW Light Detection and Ranging system, a wave train of carrier frequency is modulated in narrow-band sequence, an delay interferometer with in-phase and quadrature outputs extracts the phase of this frequency modulation, and a coherent receiver with in-phase and quadrature outputs detects the phase of reflected light from a remote object, the ratio between two phases determines the distance of the remote object.
US11150342B2
A sensing system for a vehicle includes at least one radar sensor disposed at the vehicle and having a field of sensing exterior of the vehicle. The at least one radar sensor includes multiple transmitting antennas and multiple receiving antennas. The transmitting antennas transmit signals and the receiving antennas receive the signals reflected off objects. Radar data sensed by the at least one radar sensor is received at a control, and a vehicle motion estimation is received at the control and processed at a processor of the control. The control, responsive at least in part to processing at the processor of the received sensed radar data and the received vehicle motion estimation, determines different types of surfaces in the field of sensing of the at least one radar sensor.
US11150340B2
The invention relates to a device adapted to inspect the leg of an individual, and comprises a support base (110) adapted to receive a foot of an individual, two lateral panels (120) adapted to be placed on either side of the leg of an individual, positioning means (112, 114, 142) of the foot and of the leg relative to the support base (110) and to the panels (120), microwave receiver/sender transducer means (200) arranged on each lateral panel (120) opposite the lateral panel which is facing it, and analysis means (300) of signals detected on the microwave receivers (200) corresponding to the signals transmitted from a panel (120) to the opposite panel and to the signals reflected from a panel (120) towards this same panel.
US11150331B2
Systems and methods are provided for compensating errors. A system includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) oscillating structure configured to oscillate about a rotation axis; a phase error detector configured to generate a phase error signal based on measured event times and expected event times of the MEMS oscillating structure oscillating about the rotation axis; and a compensation circuit configured to receive the phase error signal, remove periodic jitter components in the phase error signal to generate a compensated phase error signal, and output the compensated phase error signal.
US11150330B2
A beam projector module including a light source configured to output light, a substrate configured to support the light source, an optical device configured to decrease the intensity of the light output to a predetermined space, an optical substrate, in which the optical device is disposed, and configured to transmit the light, and a frame configured to space the optical device apart from the light source by a predetermined distance, and including a support part configured to support the optical substrate, wherein the optical substrate is slidingly inserted through a first slot formed to pass through a first side surface of the frame, and is mounted on the frame such that a portion of an upper surface or a lower surface of the optical substrate contacts the support part.
US11150320B2
Within several applications the ability to localize an individual within an environment is beneficial. However, existing indoor localization approaches depend upon at least one of two assumptions. First, the subject(s) localization is achieved by localizing a wireless device carried by the subject and second, wireless fingerprints are established for the localization via a site survey being performed before a system can actually localize the subject(s). However, in many application scenarios, neither of the above two assumptions are true, namely that the user is not carrying an active wireless device or that the site has been surveyed. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide for subject localization by a dynamic calibration of wireless signals between a receiver and a transmitter, where neither the receiver or transmitter are associated with an electronic device carried or worn by the subject.
US11150319B2
A method for a transportation vehicle of a transportation vehicle fleet for transmitting data to a data processing system including receiving a message, wherein the message includes information about data to be transmitted and information about a predetermined probability of the data transmission; determining whether the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system, using a random number generator and the information about the predetermined probability of the data transmission; and sending the data to be transmitted to the data processing system, in response to determining that the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system.
US11150316B2
Systems and methods execution of a magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence including a first spin-echo echo planar imaging pulse sequence to acquire first data of a volume, a second spin-echo echo planar imaging pulse sequence comprising a first one or more diffusion gradient pulses to acquire first diffusion data of the volume, a third spin-echo echo planar imaging pulse sequence comprising a second one or more diffusion gradient pulses to acquire second diffusion data of the volume, and a fourth spin-echo echo planar imaging pulse sequence comprising a third one or more diffusion gradient pulses to acquire third diffusion data of the volume, generation of perfusion metrics based on the first data, and generation of diffusion metrics based on the first data, the first diffusion data, the second diffusion data, and the third diffusion data.
US11150312B2
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based sensor device includes a first MTJ element, a first reservoir, a second MTJ element, a second reservoir, and processing circuitry. The first reservoir includes first particles configured to move within the first reservoir during acceleration. A first portion of the first reservoir is electrically coupled to a free layer of the first MTJ element. The second reservoir includes second particles configured to move within the second reservoir during acceleration. A first portion of the second reservoir is electrically coupled to a free layer of the second MTJ element. The processing circuitry is configured to determine an acceleration based on a first output voltage at a pinned layer at the first MTJ element and a second output voltage at a pinned layer at the second MTJ element.
US11150310B2
Calibration of magnetic and optical sensors in a virtual reality or augmented reality display system
A system for calibrating alignment of two or more sensors in a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) display device, the two or more sensors in the display device including at least one magnetic sensor. The system can include a first pair of conductive loops oriented in parallel planes and spaced apart along a first axis. The system can also include a mount configured to attach to the display device and to support the display device in a first predetermined spatial relationship with respect to the first pair of conductive loops.
US11150307B2
A apparatus for diagnosing battery includes a sensing unit configured to measure a voltage of a battery and a processor configured to estimate a state of charge (SOC) of the battery, detect a plurality of inflection data from SOC-voltage data of the battery where the voltage received from the sensing unit and the estimated SOC are mapped, calculate a differential coefficient increase or decrease rate at each of the plurality of inflection data detected based on a preset reference differential coefficient, diagnose a change of an electrode reaction resistance of the battery depending on whether the plurality of calculated differential coefficient increase or decrease rates belong to a preset reference increase or decrease rate range, and adjust the magnitude of a charge or discharge current of the battery only when it is diagnosed that the electrode reaction resistance is increased.
US11150285B2
In a general aspect, vapor cells are disclosed that include a dielectric body having a first surface and a second surface. The dielectric body includes a plurality of cavities extending from the first surface to the second surface and ordered periodically to define a photonic crystal structure in the dielectric body. Each cavity has a first opening defined by the first surface and a second opening defined by the second surface. The photonic crystal structure has a photonic band gap. The vapor cells additionally include a first optical window covering the first openings and having a surface bonded to the first surface of the dielectric body to form a seal around each of the first openings. A second optical window covers the second openings and has a surface bonded to the second surface of the dielectric body to form a seal around each of the second openings.
US11150281B2
An information processing device, a method and computer program product are disclosed. The information processing device includes a component, a resistance unit, and a measurement unit that measures a voltage drop of the resistance unit, wherein the resistance unit is connected on an electric power line. The method includes providing electric power to a component, adjusting a resistance unit based on an operating state of a control unit, and measuring a voltage drop of the resistance unit with a measurement unit. The computer program product includes executable code to perform providing electric power to a component; adjusting a resistance unit based on an operating state of a control unit, and measuring a voltage drop of the resistance unit with a measurement unit.
US11150279B2
A circuit includes a switching circuit including a first switch and a second switch. A current sensing circuit is coupled to the switching circuit to sense a first current through the first switch and to generate a first sensed current signal based on the sensed first current, and configured to sense a second current through the second switch and to generate a second sensed current signal based on the sensed second current. An output circuit is coupled to the current sensing circuit and is configured to generate a failure signal based on the first sensed current signal and the second sensed current signal.
US11150272B2
In a method for measuring a current, a plurality of flux-gate field sensors is arranged with radial symmetry on a first circumferential path, and a plurality of Hall sensors is arranged with radial symmetry on a second circumferential path such that a one of the flux-gate field sensors is placed adjacent a one of the Hall sensors, with the flux-gate field sensors having a sensitivity which is higher by a factor 5 to 20 than a sensitivity of the Hall sensors. At least one of the plurality of flux-gate field sensors is evaluated so as to determine a current intensity, when two of the flux-gate field sensors generate measurement values within a measurement range, or at least one of the plurality of Hall sensors is evaluated so as to determine a current intensity, when the measurement values of the two flux-gate field sensors are outside of the measurement range.
US11150266B2
The invention relates to the field of probe measurements of objects after micro- and nano-sectioning. The essence of the invention consists in that in a scanning probe nanotomograph having an optical analysis module and comprising a base, on which a piezo-scanner unit, a probe unit and a punching unit are mounted, a sixth actuator is introduced, which is installed on said base, on which an optical analysis module is fastened, which comprises a lens and an analyser, optically connected to each other; moreover, the sixth actuator facilitates displacement of the optical analysis module along the third axis Z. The invention aims at expanding functional capabilities by means of using the optical analysis module. The technical result of the invention consists in enabling the optical observation and study of objects while same are being sectioned, which expands the functional capabilities of the apparatus.
US11150265B2
The present invention discloses a three-axis accelerometer. The three-axis accelerometer comprises: a substrate; at least one anchor block fixedly disposed on the substrate; a first X-axis electrode, a second X-axis electrode, a first Y-axis electrode, a second Y-axis electrode, a first Z-axis electrode and a second Z-axis electrode all fixedly disposed on the substrate; a framework suspended above the substrate and comprising a first beam column, a second beam column disposed opposite to the first beam column and at least one connecting beam connecting the first beam column and the second beam column; a proof mass suspended above the substrate; and at least one elastic connection component configured to elastically connect to the at least anchor block, the connecting beam, and the proof mass. The three-axis accelerometer can realize high-precision acceleration detection on three axes with only one proof mass, and in particular, can provide a fully differential detection signal for the Z axis, thereby greatly improving detection precision.
US11150263B2
Provided is a measurement device including a data acquisition unit that acquires a data stream obtained in time series by a first sensor provided in a structure, and representing impact given to the structure by a movement of a moving object, and a processing unit that obtains a covariance based on the data stream and detects a timing of the impact given to the structure by the movement of the moving object, based on the covariance.
US11150256B2
A reagent management system is disclosed comprising a reagent container section for receiving reagent containers and a reagent reconstitution device for reconstituting dry, or lyophilized, reagents or concentrated reagents in reagent containers in order to carry out in-vitro diagnostic tests with the reconstituted reagents. A controller is programmed to instruct the reagent reconstitution device to automatically reconstitute an initial volume of a selected reagent type in reagent containers. The initial volume is calculated based on an open container stability time (OCS) of the reconstituted reagent type for each reagent container and on a number of tests to be carried out within the OCS of the reconstituted reagent type. A reagent container for use by the reagent management system and methods of automatically reconstituting a dry, or lyophilized reagent, or a concentrated liquid reagent in a reagent container to carry out an in-vitro diagnostic test with the reagent are disclosed.
US11150255B2
Compositions, devices and methods are described for preventing, reducing, controlling or delaying adhesion, adsorption, surface-mediated clot formation, or coagulation in a microfluidic device or chip. In one embodiment, blood (or other fluid with blood components) that contains anticoagulant is introduced into a microfluidic device comprising one or more additive channels containing one or more reagents that will re-activate the native coagulation cascade in the blood that makes contact with it “on-chip” before moving into the experimental region of the chip.
US11150254B2
The inventors produced substances that neutralize the activity of a bispecific antibody having an activity of functionally substituting for FVIII, and undertook the construction of methods for measuring the reactivity of FVIII that can ensure accuracy even in the presence of this bispecific antibody. As a result, the inventors discovered that in APTT-based one-stage clotting assay, FVIII activity in the plasma of a hemophilia A patient can be evaluated accurately, and also that in APTT-based Bethesda assay, FVIII inhibitor titer in the plasma of a hemophilia A patient carrying a FVIII inhibitor can be evaluated accurately.
US11150252B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring phosphorylated tau protein in a biological sample collected from a subject, comprising the steps of: preparing a measurement sample containing a non-capture bead and a capture bead to which an immune complex is bound, by forming the immune complex of the phosphorylated tau protein in the biological sample, a capture antibody and a detection antibody on the capture bead, in the presence of the non-capture bead; and detecting a signal derived from the immune complex in the measurement sample.
US11150240B2
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, devices, systems, and methods for use in the magnetic separation of biological entities from fluid samples. This device includes a magnetic separation chamber configured to receive a fluid sample for magnetic separation, where the magnetic separation chamber includes at least two magnets mounted on the surface or in the wall of the magnetic separation chamber. The device also includes a force provider configured to move the magnetic separation chamber in a side-to-side motion to mix and/or magnetize the fluid sample. In one embodiment, the magnetic separation chamber is in a form of a sleeve and comprises a substantially central channel for loading a vessel containing the fluid sample therein. The systems and methods of the present disclosure involve the use of this device to separate biological entities from fluid samples.
US11150236B2
In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of sensor devices contained in a plurality of wells contained in a well-plate assembly. The sensor devices are used in a plurality of oscillators. Each oscillator generates a frequency and a resistance based on a quality of living biological cells contained in a corresponding well. The quality may include, for example, surface coupled mass, density, viscosity, and/or viscoelasticity of the living biological cells. The system also includes logic for measuring a resonant frequency and motional resistance associated with each sensor device and logic for processing the measured resonant frequency and motional resistance. Moreover, the system includes logic for displaying one or more graphs showing one or more characteristics of the living biological cells contained in the wells.
US11150232B2
A laboratory device for simulating the cement sheath consolidation in the frozen soil strata includes the main body, the pressure system and the measuring system. The main body includes the fixing plate, the detachable plate and the base plate. The circular hole is provided in the center of the base. The central column or the heat insulating casing is mounted on the base through the circular hole. The fixing plate, the detachable plate, the base plate and the central column or the heat insulating casing form a cavity for preparing the core and the cement sheath. During use, the device is placed in a low temperature context, and then the frozen soil core with a hollow cylinder can be artificially fabricated. Further, the heat insulating casing holder is placed, and the cement is added to simulate the state of the cement sheath consolidation under the actual strata conditions.
US11150224B2
The present disclosure relates to methodologies, systems, apparatus, and kits for introducing a sample within a chromatography system. A makeup pump is configured to pump a makeup fluid through a first restrictor into the chromatography system upstream of the column and downstream of a mobile phase pump. The first restrictor is located upstream of a column and downstream of makeup pump and a sample fluid pump. Decreasing an output volume of the makeup pump can direct a sample fluid from the sample fluid pump through the first restrictor to the column. Increasing an output volume of the makeup pump can direct the sample fluid to a second restrictor located downstream of the makeup pump and in parallel with the column and the detector.
US11150222B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems, and a computer program product for acquiring phased array ultrasonic testing data leveraging a sliding receiver aperture defined according to a principle of acoustic reciprocity. The method includes triggering each of a set of ultrasonic probe elements to pulse as a pulser element. For each pulser element, a respective subset of the ultrasonic probe elements may be defined as the sliding receiver aperture according to a principle of acoustic reciprocity to act as receiver elements to receive response signals. Data corresponding to the respective response signals for each pair of pulser element and receiver element then may be stored.
US11150204B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a sample inspection device and a sample inspection method, whereby noise is removed from a detection signal, and a generated electron beam is utilized effectively for inspection. A sample inspection device according to the present invention is provided with a light source for emitting frequency-modulated light, a photocathode for emitting an electron beam in response to receiving the frequency-modulated light, a detector for detecting electrons emitted from a sample irradiated by the electron beam and generating a detection signal, and a signal extractor for extracting a signal having a frequency corresponding to a modulation frequency of the frequency-modulated light from within the detection signal.
US11150198B2
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for inspecting a ball grid array-type semiconductor chip package. A first embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor chip package, the apparatus comprising: a first image acquisition unit for acquiring a reference image using a three-dimensional image of a semiconductor chip serving as a reference, the reference image being obtained by removing a region of interest from the three-dimensional image; a second image acquisition unit for acquiring a two-dimensional image of a semiconductor chip to be inspected; and an image processing unit for deriving an image of a region of interest of the semiconductor chip to be inspected, from the difference between the reference image and the two-dimensional image.
US11150196B2
The disclosure provides a joining process line monitoring system capable of preventing joining quality deterioration and operation delay. A joining process line monitoring system 100 includes a joining phenomenon data acquisition part 111 configured to acquire a joining phenomenon of a joining subject member as phenomenon data; an operation state data acquisition part 112 configured to acquire a joining operation state of the joining subject member as operation state data; an evaluation data calculation unit 120 configured to perform time synchronization of the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data, and associate the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data with each joining operation location, so as to calculate evaluation data; a difference data extraction unit 130 configured to extract a difference between the evaluation data and reference data set in advance as difference data; an abnormal location determination unit 140 that determines that a portion having a large difference from the joining phenomenon is an abnormal location; and a presentation unit 150 configured to present the abnormal location of a joining portion of the joining subject member based on the difference data.
US11150189B1
A method of manufacturing a light source carrier with at least one light source, including: providing a substrate with a plurality of light source groups disposed thereon, wherein each light source group includes the at least one light source; irradiating a first light upon one of the light source groups through a first mask; capturing a photoluminescent light emitted by the one of the light source groups to acquire data; comparing the data with a reference to determine whether the one of the light source groups is qualified; providing a carrier; and transferring the one of the light source groups from the substrate to the carrier if the one of the light source groups is qualified.
US11150188B2
There are provided a control device of an image reading apparatus, an operation method and an operation program thereof, and an image detection system capable of quickly and easily outputting an image having an appropriate density for analysis from an image reading apparatus. An image receiving unit receives a pre-image output in pre-scanning performed before main scanning for outputting a main image for analysis in an image reading apparatus. A region information receiving unit receives information of a region in the pre-image designated by a user. A calculation unit calculates an appropriate voltage value that is a voltage value of the photomultiplier at which a density of the region becomes an appropriate density for analysis. A scanning conditions setting unit sets the appropriate voltage value as temporary scanning conditions of main scanning.
US11150186B1
The stiffness and topology of ultra-small circular DNAs and DNA/peptide hybrids are exploited to create a transducer of enzyme activity with low error rates. The modularity and flexibility of the concept are illustrated by demonstrating various transducers that respond to either specific restriction endonucleases or to specific proteases. In all cases the output is a DNA oligo signal that, as we show, can readily be converted directly to an optical readout, or can serve as input for further processing, for example, using DNA logic or amplification. By exploiting the DNA hairpin (or stem-loop) structure and the phenomenon of strand displacement, an enzyme signal is converted into a DNA signal, in the manner of a transducer. This is valuable because a DNA signal can be readily amplified, combined, and processed as information.
US11150177B2
An apparatus for testing a coefficient of friction of an article is provided. The apparatus includes a base, a ramp, and an actuator. The ramp includes a first rail and a second rail that are spaced apart by a first distance. The first and second rails cooperate to define a first travel path for the article. The actuator is coupled with the base and is operably coupled with the ramp to facilitate selective pivoting of the ramp between a first angular position and a second angular position.
US11150175B2
Methods for determining a radius of gyration of a particle in solution using a light scattering detector are provided. The method may include passing the solution through a flowpath in a sample cell, determining respective angular normalization factors for first and second angles of the detector, obtaining a first scattering intensity of the particle in solution at the first angle, obtaining a second scattering intensity of the particle in solution at the second angle, obtaining a 10° scattering intensity of the particle in solution at an angle of about 10°, determining a first particle scattering factor, determining a second particle scattering factor, plotting an angular dissymmetry plot, fitting a line to the angular dissymmetry plot, determining a slope of the line at a selected location on the line, determining the radius of gyration of the particle in solution from the slope of the line, and outputting the radius of gyration.
US11150173B2
Laser speckle microrheology is used to determine a mechanical property of a biological tissue, namely, an elastic modulus. Speckle frames may be acquired by illuminating a coherent light and capturing back-scattered rays in parallel and cross-polarized states with respect to illumination. The speckle frames may be analyzed temporally to obtain diffuse reflectance profiles (DRPs) for the parallel-polarized and cross-polarized states. A scattering characteristic of particles in the biological tissue may be determined based on the DRPs, and a displacement characteristic may be determined based at least in part on a speckle intensity autocorrelation function and the scattering characteristic. A size characteristic of scattering particles may be determined based on the DRP for the parallel polarization state. The mechanical property may be calculated using the displacement and size characteristics.
US11150170B2
An apparatus for measuring a deformation stiffness of an article includes a force measuring means configured to measure a force generated in a thickness direction of the article; a thickness measuring means configured to measure a thickness of the article; and a data processor configured to differentiate force with respect to thickness to calculate the deformation stiffness of the article, wherein each of the force and the thickness are a result of a volume change of the article.
US11150168B2
A device for isolating a microbe or a virion includes a semiconductor substrate; and a trench formed in the semiconductor substrate and extending from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to a region within the semiconductor substrate; wherein the trench has dimensions such that the microbe or the virion is trapped within the trench.
US11150161B2
A transmission testing device that can highly accurately reproduce behavior of an actual engine includes a drive dynamometer DM1 connected to an input shaft of a transmission, absorption dynamometers DM2 and DM3 that are connected to output shafts of the transmission, a shaft torque detection unit that detects a shaft torque value generated at the input shaft of the transmission, and a control unit that controls the drive dynamometer DM1. The control unit uses the shaft torque value detected by the shaft torque detection unit to generate a shaft torque correction value for the drive dynamometer DM1, receives an engine torque input value and uses the received engine torque input value to generate an engine torque correction value for the drive dynamometer DM1, and controls the drive dynamometer DM1 on the basis of a torque command value generated from the shaft torque correction value and the engine torque correction value.
US11150159B2
An adaptive loading method for real-time hybrid simulation testing based on a space frame model. The system initial delay is controlled to be close to 0 before the loading of seismic wave by a dual compensation strategy for the initial delay based on the initial delay compensation and the adaptive loading segment, thereby solving the problem of insufficient estimation and compensation of the initial delay in the real-time hybrid simulation. In addition, the test substructure of the space frame model is equated as a test element, and the overall displacement response corresponding to the test substructure in the overall model is converted to the actual loading relative displacement of the test substructure by using the signal conversion module, thereby realizing the real-time loading of the large-scale spatial frame model with great rigidity.
US11150155B2
A pressure sensing device is configured for measuring water pressure in a soil medium, and includes a sensor housing and a pressure sensor. The sensor housing is adapted with a sensor cavity delimited by an enveloping surface. The sensor housing is provided with a selective passage for water between an outer surface of the sensor housing and the sensor cavity. The pressure sensor is arranged within the sensor cavity for measurement of a water pressure within the sensor cavity. The pressure sensing device includes an antimicrobial substance for preventing microbial gas production in the sensor cavity.
US11150153B2
A torque-sensing and transmitting device is provided. The device includes a transmission body, two vibration-damping members, two inner casings, two outer casings, a first circuit board module, and a battery module. The two inner casings are disposed on a shaft of the transmission body, and a vibration-damping member is disposed between the inner casing and the shaft. The first circuit board module is disposed in one of the two inner casings, and the first circuit board module is covered by a vibration-damping layer. The battery module is disposed on the other inner casing, and the battery module is covered by a vibration-damping layer. With the configuration of the vibration-damping member and the vibration-damping layer, this device solves the problem of the first circuit board module and the battery module being damaged due to vibration.
US11150149B2
A gear positioning device according to an embodiment includes: a chuck configured to hold a gear; a rotation drive mechanism configured to rotationally drive the chuck so that the gear rotates around a predetermined rotation axis; a displacement meter configured to continuously or periodically acquire a measurement value representing a distance between a reference point located outside the gear and an outer peripheral surface of the gear while rotating the gear; and a control device configured to set a part of the outer peripheral surface of the gear as a measurement object on the basis of a rotation angle of the gear, the measurement value, and at least one predetermined reference value and control the rotation drive mechanism so that the measurement object is disposed at a reference position.
US11150140B2
An apparatus includes a substrate, a nested enclosure assembly including an outer enclosure and an inner enclosure, wherein the outer enclosure encloses the inner enclosure and the inner enclosure encloses at least the electronic assembly. An insulating medium is disposed within a cavity between the outer surface of the inner enclosure and the inner surface of the outer enclosure and the system includes a sensor assembly communicatively coupled to the electronic assembly. The sensor assembly includes one or more sensors that are configured to acquire one or more measurement parameters at one or more locations of the substrate. The electronic assembly is configured to receive the one or more measurement parameters from the one or more sensors.
US11150137B2
An integrated photonics chip for thermal imaging comprises a photonics substrate including a plurality of receiver elements. Each receiver element comprises a first grating coupler optically coupled to a first waveguide filter and configured to receive a first wavelength of light at a given angle, with the first waveguide filter configured to pass the first wavelength of light; and a second grating coupler optically coupled to a second waveguide filter and configured to receive a second wavelength of light at the given angle, with second waveguide filter configured to pass the second wavelength of light. Each receiver element receives the wavelengths of light from an object of interest that emits the light due to blackbody radiation, and receives the wavelengths of light at respectively different angles. Each grating coupler receives a unique wavelength of light with respect to the other wavelengths of light received by the other grating couplers.
US11150131B2
A smartphone is optically coupled to an apparatus that can operate in multiple modes to perform transmission, reflectance, intensity, or scattered light spectroscopy on a sample provided, in an appropriately configured sample cartridge. The apparatus includes a first illumination optical path for illuminating the sample, with light from a light source, on the smartphone for transmission, reflectance, and scattered light spectroscopy. The apparatus also includes a second illumination optical path for illuminating the sample with light from a laser diode for intensity spectroscopy. The apparatus farther includes a collection optical path for collecting light from the sample in each of the modes. An image sensor on the smartphone receives the collected light via a diffraction grating to obtain a spectrum image. The first illumination optical path is substantially parallel to the collection optical path, whereas the second illumination optical path is substantially orthogonal to the collection path.
US11150130B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a multi-pass gas cell that includes a set of two or more reflectors, an input collimating optical component, and an output focusing optical component. The input and output optical components are integrated with at least one of the two or more reflectors. For example, the input and output optical components may be integrated on opposite ends of a single one of the reflectors or may be integrated on the same end of a single reflector. The input and output optical components may further be integrated with different reflectors. In some examples, the set of reflectors and optical components may be fabricated within the same substrate.
US11150127B2
A vibrometer assembly including a vibrometer configured to measure vibration of a rotating shaft, includes: a probe of the vibrometer that is to be secured to a bearing device that supports the rotating shaft; a guide cylinder that is to be provided to a case so as to penetrate the case and protrude into the case, the case being located outside the bearing device; an attachment that is to be connected to the probe and inserted into the guide cylinder, and at least partially has a movable portion to allow the probe to be axially aligned with an inside securing portion in the bearing device; and an outside securing portion that secures the attachment to the guide cylinder or the case outside the case.
US11150125B2
A fuel remaining amount detector may include an arm supported rotatably to a body; an angle sensor configured to output first data in accordance with a relative angle between the body and the arm; a storage circuit configured to store conversion data; and a data conversion circuit configured to convert the first data to second data based on the conversion data. A manufacturing method of the fuel remaining amount detector may include creating the conversion data by performing processing for each of at least three predetermined angles, in which the processing includes: measuring the first data outputted by the angle sensor with the relative angle set to one of the predetermined angles; and storing a value corresponding to the one of the predetermined angles in the storage circuit as a value of the second data in association with the value of the measured first data.
US11150124B2
A liquid level detection device unit includes a liquid level detection device configured to detect a liquid level of liquid stored in a tank, and a fixing member fixing the liquid level detection device to inside of the tank. The liquid level detection device includes a device body, at least one terminal electrically connected to a detection unit in a housing of the device body, and a detection wire in which one end is electrically connected to an exposed part of the terminal exposed from the housing. At least one through opening is provided on an attachment surface of the fixing member so as to face the exposed part of the terminal and prevent the liquid from staying in a connection portion between the terminal and the detection wire.
US11150108B2
A magnetic angle sensor includes a semiconductor chip that includes: a pair of vertical Hall sensor elements configured to generate vertical Hall sensor signals in response to a magnetic field impinging thereon; a first pair of lateral Hall sensor elements configured to generate first lateral Hall sensor signals in response to the magnetic field impinging thereon; a second pair of lateral Hall sensor elements configured to generate second lateral Hall sensor signals in response to the magnetic field impinging thereon; and a sensor circuit configured to: determine a first angle value corresponding to an orientation of the magnetic field based on the vertical Hall sensor signals, determine a second angle value corresponding to the orientation of the magnetic field based on the first and the second lateral Hall sensor signals, and determine whether the first and the second angle values are within an acceptable tolerance range of each other.
US11150107B1
A touch sensor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode arranged spaced apart from the first electrode, and an insulator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is energized, and an energy difference exists between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a stressed electrode. When the stressed electrode is not stressed, no electrical signal is generated, and when the stressed electrode is stressed, the stressed electrode deforms at a stressed point and changes the distance between the stressed point and the other electrode to generate a tunneling current, and the touch sensor generates the electrical signal according to whether the tunneling current is generated. Therefore, the invention solves a limitation of the conventional touch sensor in touching and provides good touching sensitivity.
US11150106B2
A measuring device comprising at least two output units for output of measured values, wherein the output units are optically coupled. The optical coupling effects a lessening of the manufacturing effort as well as a galvanic isolation of the output units.
US11150099B2
Amount of distance and/or time spent driving off-road by a vehicle during a specified drive may be detected. Readings from a location device and accelerometer sensor of the vehicle may be compared with historical readings of other vehicles taking similar drives, and for example, with similar driving behaviors, to detect off-road driving by the vehicle.
US11150097B2
A method for providing waypoint data to a vehicle controller. This method may include obtaining a plurality of coordinate locations describing a vehicle route, performing a computation of the vehicle route using said coordinates, obtaining route data describing the route, transforming the route data into coordinate data comprising a plurality of data points expressed in longitude and latitude form, converting the coordinate data into properly-spaced waypoint data, storing the waypoint data in a form accessible to a vehicle controller, and accessing the waypoint data via a vehicle controller. According to an exemplary embodiment, the properly-spaced waypoint data may be created from improperly-spaced data via interpolation. The vehicle controller may control other devices associated with a vehicle, such as an automated voice announcement system or an external display.
US11150093B1
An inertial navigation system (INS) device includes three or more atomic interferometer inertial sensors, three or more atomic interferometer gravity gradiometers, and a processor. Three or more atomic interferometer inertial sensors obtain raw inertial measurements for three or more components of linear acceleration and three or more components of rotation. Three or more atomic interferometer gravity gradiometers obtain raw measurements for three or more components of the gravity gradient tensor. The processor is configured to determine position using the raw inertial measurements and the raw gravity gradient measurements.
US11150091B2
An angular velocity sensor comprises: an insulative support layer (10); a substrate layer (8) formed of a silica-based material and comprising a planar ring structure (2) mounted to vibrate in-plane; and a plurality of conductive electrodes (14), each comprising a first set of moveable conductive electrode tracks (14a) formed on a surface of the planar ring and a second set of fixed conductive electrode tracks (14b) formed on a surface of the insulative support layer axially spaced from the surface of the planar ring. The first and second sets of conductive electrode tracks are interdigitated with a lateral spacing between them in a radial direction. Each moveable conductive electrode track has a radial offset from a median line between adjacent fixed conductive electrode tracks such that each moveable conductive electrode track has a different lateral spacing from two different adjacent fixed conductive electrode tracks in opposite radial directions.
US11150064B2
A radar-absorbing material projectile system including a projectile with an outer layer of radar-absorbing material (RAM). A carrier or armature is disposed around the projectile, protecting the layer of RAM during the firing sequence. In some embodiments the carrier is a discarding carrier which falls away after firing, rendering the projectile low-observable with regard to radar detection due to the layer of RAM.
US11150062B1
The present invention relates to the control of munitions, missiles and projectiles, in flight. The present invention further relates to systems and methods for control of munitions, missiles and projectiles in flight with the use of activatable or deployable flow effectors that remain stowed or inactive during launch or firing, and can be actuated after launch or firing on demand. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for control of munitions, missiles, and projectiles by activating and/or deactivating a control actuation system (CAS) based on measurements of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and sensors integrated into such IMU, the IMU and sensors being at least part of a configurable guidance sensor suite (CGSS).
US11150061B1
An arrow nock assembly for enhancing drawing an arrow shaft in a bow includes a nock that is attachable to an arrow shaft. The nock has a pair of indentations each being integrated into an outer surface of the nock. Each of the indentations enhances gripping the nock for drawing the arrow shaft in a bow. The nock has a string space therein and the string space has a twisted orientation enhance attaching the nock to the string of the bow.
US11150057B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a betting dart game. The betting dart game method is provided to induce an interest and tension of a user, thereby enhancing fun of a game.
US11150055B2
Various embodiments of an accessory mounting device are disclosed. The device can be adapted to engage an elongated rail. The device can include a body having top, bottom, and first and second side surfaces. Each of the side surfaces can include a rail engagement portion adjacent the bottom surface of the body and an accessory engagement portion adjacent the top surface. The device can also include a locking mechanism including a lever connected to the body at a pivot, and a tab extending from the lever in a direction away from the bottom surface. In one or more embodiments, the locking mechanism can include first and second levers each connected to the body at a pivot. The lever can rotate about a pivot axis in a direction toward the top surface of the body when the locking mechanism is manipulated from a locked position to an unlocked position.
US11150045B1
A suppressor heat shielding system, including at least some of a suppressor heat shield having an internal cavity sized to allow at least a portion of a suppressor to be at least partially contained therein, wherein a sealed heat shield cavity is formed between at least a portion of an interior surface and at least a portion of an exterior surface of the suppressor heat shield, and wherein a vacuum is created within the heat shield cavity; an externally threaded support ring attached or coupled to a first end of the suppressor heat shield, wherein one or more support ring air gaps are formed through the support ring element; a heat shield cap having one or more gas apertures formed therethrough abutted against a second end of the suppressor heat shield; and a heat shield nut abutted against at least a portion of the heat shield cap.
US11150044B1
A system that allows a person to adjust the tension of the fire control mechanism of a firearm from outside the firearm so the firearm does not need to be disassembled to make such adjustments. The system has a modified mainspring housing that supports one or more spring engaging mechanisms which engage the sear spring of the fire control mechanism. In one configuration, first and second apertures extend through the housing body and an engaging device, such as a screw, is received in each aperture to contact different segments of the sear spring. From outside the firearm, the user moves the devices forward or rearward in the apertures to apply more or less force to the subject sear spring segment to adjust the tension of the fire control mechanism. The sear spring is modified so each engaged segment has an enlarged area that is contacted by its engaging device.
US11150037B2
An improved heat exchange apparatus is provided with an indirect evaporative heat exchange section consisting of a series of serpentine tubes which are kept uniformly spaced in the return bend section. Providing uniform return bend spacing on the return bend ends allow for ease of circuit assembly (stacking), ease of coil pull-down, ease of manufacturing, reduction in production cost, produces a higher quality hot dip galvanizing process and is a more robust design that tolerates manufacturing variability issues such as variable tube circuit length and variable return bend angles. Uniform return bend spacing also reduces scaling relative to prior art designs which had wet/dry areas resulting from shadowed tubes which were non-uniformly spaced, provides for better inspection and access to the tubes in the return bend area, maintains uniform air passage around tubes, promotes better tube wetting of the return bend area and ultimately promotes higher quality and higher performing heat exchanger coils.
US11150036B2
Air-cooled condensers and air-cooled condenser streets for condensing exhaust steam from a turbine are disclosed. An example air-cooled condenser street includes one or more rows of V-shaped heat exchangers. Each row includes a main steam manifold to introduce exhaust steam into tube bundles that are placed in an inclined position such that condensate formed in the bundles flows back by gravitation to the main steam manifold. Top steam manifolds are connected to the upper end of respectively each of the tube bundles of the air-cooled condenser street. The series of parallel top steam manifolds are forming a support assembly for supporting one or more fan decks. The fan decks support a plurality of fans to induce an air draft in the V-shaped heat exchangers.
US11150035B2
Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces that function as power radiating surfaces for which at least a portion of the radiating surface includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface wave causes near replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission. The area of a surface and its number of fractals determines the gain relative to a single fractal cell. The boundary edges of the surface may be terminated resistively so as to not degrade the cell performance at the edges. The fractal plasmonic surfaces can be utilized to facilitate electrical conduction with lower ohmic resistance than would otherwise be possible in the absence of the fractal plasmonic surface(s) at the same temperature.
US11150026B2
A heat exchanger including a plurality of flat sheets arranged in parallel and a plurality of profiled sheets, each of which including a number of straight segments and being arranged between two subsequent flat sheets and having a repeating profile. The profiled sheets and the flat sheets together create a plurality of parallel ducts arranged in layers. The parallel ducts are divided by the profiled sheets into ducts of a first type and ducts of a second type, the ducts of the second type neighboring the ducts of the first type. Each duct of the first and second type has a width w(d) which is a function of a distance d with d the distance from a first flat sheet.
US11150018B1
A kiln for drying and processing lumber packages is provided. The kiln generally includes at least one end chamber, a drying chamber adjacent to the end chamber, a first lumber conveying line configured to transport the lumber packages in a first direction through the end chamber and the drying chamber, and a second lumber conveying line configured to transport the lumber packages in a second direction through the end chamber and the drying chamber. The conveying lines may be countercurrent or uniflow. The kiln may further include a heat distributor in the end chamber to distribute heat into the end chamber in addition to heat from the drying chamber along the first and second lumber conveying lines. The heat distributor may include a distribution duct receiving heat from a drying chamber distribution duct or a heater inlet duct, a heat exchanger, a radiative heating element, or a combination thereof.
US11150015B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlling the production of a liquefied natural gas product stream (31) obtained by removing heat from natural gas by indirect heat exchange with an expanded heavy mixed refrigerant and an expanded light mixed refrigerant. The method comprises executing a control loop comprising maintaining the flow rate of the liquefied natural gas product stream (31) at a dependent set point and maintaining the flow rates of the heavy mixed refrigerant (60a) and the light mixed refrigerant (65) at operator manipulated set points (80, 81). The method further comprises executing an override control loop comprising: determining an override set point (95′) for the flow rate of the liquefied natural gas and computing an override set point (80′) for the flow rate of the heavy mixed refrigerant and an override set point (81′) to reduce residual available power of the electric motor.
US11150008B2
A cabinet of an appliance includes an outer wrapper defining opposing first and second sidewalls, a rear wall coupling the first and second sidewalls and an access opening and an inner liner defining an interior. The outer wrapper and the inner liner may define a sealed insulating cavity therebetween that is under vacuum. A plurality of reinforcement brackets may be disposed on the outer wrapper. The plurality of reinforcement brackets are configured to prevent deformation of the cabinet during application of the vacuum to the insulating cavity.
US11150007B2
An air-regulating freshness-preserving storage device comprises a container having a first storage space defined therein; and an oxygen removal device configured to remove a part or all of oxygen in air in the first storage space, so as to obtain the air rich in nitrogen, low in oxygen, and favorable for food preservation.
US11149999B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, a controller, a bypass pipe, a refrigerant cooler, a second expansion device, and a controller temperature sensor. In a case where a temperature measured by the controller temperature sensor is lower than or equal to a set temperature in a state where an opening degree of the second expansion device is controlled to an instruction opening degree that is lower than or equal to a set opening degree, the controller is configured to perform foreign substance release control where the controller is configured to increase the opening degree of the second expansion device and then is configured to return the opening degree of the second expansion device to the instruction opening degree.
US11149997B2
A cooling system uses P-traps to address the oil return issues that result from a vertical separation between the compressor and the high side heat exchanger. Generally, the vertical piping that carries the refrigerant from the compressor to the high side heat exchanger includes P-traps installed at various heights to capture oil in the refrigerant and to prevent that oil from flowing back to the compressor. As oil collects in the P-traps, the refrigerant begins to push the oil upwards until the oil reaches the high side heat exchanger. Multiple piping of different sizes may be used depending on a discharge pressure of the compressor. When the discharge pressure is higher, a larger piping may be used direct the oil and refrigerant to the high side heat exchanger.
US11149991B2
The present disclosure relates to a heating and cooling apparatus having a moisture removal function for testing electrical characteristics of a semiconductor element using a probe system, in which the heating and cooling apparatus is configured to be capable of hot and cold measurement of a wafer or a flat panel display product and to be capable of efficiently removing water droplets generated at the time of cooling by adding a vortex tube to a thermo-stream provided in a probe head of the probe system and configuring the vortex tube to be interlocked with a moisture removal device.
US11149990B2
A gas wave refrigerator including a first end body; a second end body; a main body disposed between the first end body and the second end body; a first end cover; a hydraulic mandrel; a hydraulic oil inlet pipe; a hydraulic cylinder; a first single mechanical seal; a bushing; a nozzle rotator including two rows of nozzles; press plates disposed at two sides of the nozzle rotator; a main shaft; oscillation receiving tubes; a belt wheel; an embedded bearing seat; a second end cover; and a hydraulic balance device. The hydraulic balance device includes a hydraulic cylinder, a hydraulic mandrel, a seal ring, bearings, a piston, and a piston ring. The nozzle rotator and the press plates disposed at two sides of the nozzle rotator are installed on the main shaft.
US11149987B2
A solar heat collector tube in which at least an infrared reflective layer, a sunlight-heat conversion layer and an anti-reflection layer are provided on the outer surface of a tube, through the interior of which a heat medium can flow, wherein the infrared reflective layer is an Ag layer in which silicon, silicon nitride or a mixture thereof is dispersed, and a method for producing the solar heat collector tube wherein the infrared reflective layer that is an Ag layer, in which silicon, silicon nitride or a mixture thereof is dispersed, is formed by sputtering in the presence of a gas including nitrogen gas, with Ag and silicon being used as targets.
US11149983B2
A hot-water storage type boiler having a vortex guide portion is proposed. Since the present invention includes a spiral portion inside a casing, water supplied into the casing is moved to the upper side of the space part, while being in contact with fire tubes for a long time by moving spirally along the spiral portion, thereby improving heat exchange efficiency of the fire tubes. In addition, since the water supplied into the casing is moved spirally along the spiral portion to form a vortex, the flow of water moving in the direction of a hot-water discharge portion collides with a firebox lower surface part at a high speed, thereby having an effect of preventing scale from accumulating on the firebox lower surface part.
US11149979B1
A decorative air vent apparatus can be used to cover air vent openings that supply heated or cooled air to a room from a central HVAC system. The decorative air vent is comprised of a housing, a decorative insert, and a decorative face plate. The housing supplants or is inserted into a conventional HVAC air vent opening and provides a space for the attachment and display of a decorative insert on the interior of the vent opening. The decorative face plate attaches to the housing, and has a central opening allowing for visual observation of the interior of the housing for the observer's enjoyment of the displayed decorative insert. The insert and face plate present artistic patterns or depictions and are interchangeable. When not used in conjunction with the housing, the decorative insert can be attached directly to the decorative face plate and displayed on a flat surface.
US11149973B2
A thermostat that is configured to be releasably secured to a wall mountable connector, wherein the wall mountable connector includes a jumper switch that permits an installer or other professional to easily form an electrical connection between different wiring terminals of the wall mountable connector in accordance with how particular field wires are connected to the wiring terminals of the wall mountable connector. The thermostat is further configured to automatically determine the position of the jumper switch of the wall mountable connector, and in some cases, change the control of at least some functionality of the thermostat and/or HVAC equipment depending on the position of the jumper switch.
US11149968B2
A heat source unit including: mounting feet; a bottom frame disposed on the mounting feet; vibration-proofing members that are disposed between the bottom frame and the mounting feet and space the bottom frame apart from the mounting feet; and a plurality of struts that extend upward from the mounting feet. All of the struts are anchored to the mounting feet without being anchored to the bottom frame.
US11149955B2
A modular forced air burner assembly for rapidly heating contents of an oversized pot includes a frame, which has a top that is substantially open and configured to support a pot. A burner assembly that is selectively positionable below the pot is configured to burn a fuel gas to heat the pot and its contents. A forced air module that is selectively operationally couplable to the burner assembly is configured to force air into the burner assembly to enhance combustion of the fuel gas. A pipe is selectively couplable to an exterior of the frame so that the pipe extends from proximate to a midpoint of the frame past the top of the frame. The pipe is configured to direct heat across a sidewall of the pot to enhance heating of the pot and its contents.
US11149953B2
A method for reducing NOx emissions in a gas turbine in which a flow of primary air and a flow of fuel are fed into a dual annular counter rotating swirler, the primary air flow being fed into the inner and outer annular chambers, wherein the method comprises the step of injecting the flow of fuel into the inner annular chamber; another embodiment is a gas turbine air fuel mixer comprising a dual annular counter rotating swirler comprising a fuel supplying element adapted to supplying fuel inside the inner chamber of the swirler; another embodiment is a gas turbine provided by such air fuel mixer.
US11149951B2
In a combustor including a plurality of combustion nozzles, and a gas turbine including the same, fuel can be uniformly mixed with compressed air for each combustion nozzle. The combustor includes a plurality of combustion nozzles arranged in a nozzle casing, and each combustion nozzle includes a nozzle shroud for taking in compressed air; an injection cylinder concentrically disposed in the nozzle shroud and configured to be supplied with fuel for mixing with the compressed air; and a plurality of swirlers circumferentially arranged around the injection cylinder and configured to inject the fuel from the injection cylinder into the shroud. The plurality of swirlers divide an interior space of the nozzle shroud into a plurality of fluid flow regions, and include a pair of adjacent swirlers spaced apart from each other by a circumferential distance that differs from a circumferential distance between another pair of adjacent swirlers.
US11149949B2
A gas turbine engine has a converging duct that has combustion products flow at low mach speeds through a first portion and a high mach speeds through a second portion. The converging duct has two types of cooling schemes formed. One type of cooling scheme is beneficial for the low mach speed combustion product flow and one type of cooling scheme is beneficial for the high mach speed combustion product flow. The two cooling schemes are blended together in order increase the efficiency of the cooling of the converging duct.
US11149946B2
A system for controlling activity in a combustion chamber. The system does not necessarily need to be mechanically adjusted and yet may provide precise control of a fuel air mixture ratio. A sensing module of the system may have a mass flow sensor that relates to air flow and another sensor that relates to fuel flow. Neither sensor may need contact with fuel. Fuel and air to the system may be controlled. Pressure of the fuel and/or air may be regulated. The sensors may provide signals to a processor to indicate a state of the fuel and air in the system. The processor, with reliance on a programmed curve, table or the like, often based on data, in a storage memory, may regulate the flow or pressure of the fuel and air in a parallel fashion to provide an appropriate fuel-air mixture to the combustion chamber.
US11149941B2
An injection system includes a radial swirler defining an axis and including a plurality of radial swirl vanes configured to direct a radially inward flow of compressor discharge air entering swirler inlets between the radial swirl vanes in a swirling direction around the axis. The radial swirler includes an outlet oriented in an axial direction to direct swirling compressor discharge air in an axial direction. An injector ring is included radially outward from of the swirler inlets. The fuel injector ring is aligned with the axis and includes a plurality of injection orifices directed towards the swirler inlets for injecting fuel into the radial swirler.
US11149935B2
A lighting apparatus includes a wiring box, a wiring board, multiple wires and a manual switch. The wiring box has a top cover and a bottom cover together forming a container space. The wiring board is disposed in the container space. Multiple wires are used. Each wire has a first end attached to the wiring board and a first detachable connector for respectively connecting to a second detachable connector of a light device. The manual switch is provided for a user to operate to control the light devices, and may be a button for turning on or turning off one or all light devices, or multiple buttons respectively for controlling different light devices.
US11149929B2
A decorative light string for draping on an external structure, comprising a plurality of decorative-lighting wires, each of the plurality of decorative-lighting wires including an outer insulation layer, one or more conductors, and one or more reinforcing strands; and a plurality of lamps electrically connected to one another by the plurality of decorative-lighting wires.
US11149928B2
A vehicle lamp comprises a light irradiation unit including a light source and a board on which the light source is installed, a base member including a first surface for mounting the light irradiation unit and a second surface adjacent to the first surface, a connection terminal arranged on the second surface and extending and protruding in a direction of the first surface, and a coupling member arranged on the board and electrically connected with the light source. The connection terminal is inserted into the coupling member when the board is mounted on the first surface.
US11149922B1
A light output reducing shutter system, having a light system with a shutter barrel assembly, a solid shutter assembly, a first translucent shutter assembly, and a second translucent shutter assembly, wherein the solid shutter assembly, the first translucent shutter assembly, and the second translucent shutter assembly are positioned in a same focal plane when a light is projected from the light system. The first translucent shutter assembly has a first degree of translucency and the second translucent shutter assembly has a second degree of translucency. The shutter barrel assembly has a first set of slots, a second set of slots, and a third set of slots to receive the solid shutter assembly, the first translucent shutter assembly, and the second translucent shutter assembly respectively. The first set of slots, the second set of slots, and the third set of slots each have four slots around the shutter barrel assembly.
US11149918B2
The back plate has four lateral walls and a bottom plate. A back side of the bottom plate includes multiple sets of folding hooks. Each set corresponds a different installation platform. One of the multiple sets of folding hooks is folded to be used for hooking to a corresponding installation platform. The light source module has multiple LED modules disposed on the bottom plate. Each LED module has a LED device and a lens. The lens diffuses a light of the LED device to be evenly emitted from the lens and broadening an output angle of the light via the lens. The diffusion plate with a peripheral edge is fixed to the four lateral walls of the back plate. The driver cover is attached to an external side of one of the four walls of the back plate. The driver cover defines a container cavity for concealing the driver module.
US11149914B2
A lighting device for vehicles, having a light source unit containing a plurality of light sources for emitting light and having a planar light guide body associated with the light source unit containing a flat surface portion with at least two opposite flat surfaces extending from a light input side of the flat surface portion to a light output side thereof, wherein the light can be coupled out at a narrow side of the light output side for the generation of a light distribution and comprising a deflection section for the deflection of the light emitted by the light source unit in the direction of the narrow side of the flat surface portion coupling out the light.
US11149905B2
Systems and methods for natural gas storage and transport with a mobile unit, the method including charging a mobile natural gas storage and transport unit with natural gas via adsorption of the natural gas on adsorbent materials disposed within the natural gas storage and transport unit; transporting the natural gas storage and transport unit a distance to proximate a natural gas power generation unit; and discharging the natural gas over time via desorption of the natural gas from the adsorbent materials to power the natural gas power generation unit.
US11149904B1
An improved holder includes a first plate with a front and a back where the first plate includes a container cut out conformed to receive a container. A second plate, with a front and a back, where the second plate includes a secondary cut out, is connected to the first plate below the first plate. A post receiving tube with an open end is connected to the second plate where the open end of the post receiving tube is configured to fit over and receive at least part of a post such that the improved holder apparatus is suspended from the post.
US11149903B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, apparatuses, kits, and systems for supporting an object at an opening of a structure, such as a window of a building. In an aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus includes one or more members that define an interior section and an exterior section. The interior section configured to be coupled to the structure via a first surface of a structure, and the exterior section configured to be coupled to the structure via a second surface of the structure. The apparatus further includes a brace coupled to the one or more members and that extends through a member of the one or more members. The brace comprises includes a first end configured to be coupled to the first surface or the second surface of the structure, and a second end operable to adjust an amount that the brace extends through the member.
US11149900B2
A leg spreader (10) for a tripod comprising at least two portions (12, 14) selectably moveable with respect to one another along an axis; a first portion comprising a latch (16) and a second portion comprising an engagement region (18); the latch being releasably engageable with the engagement region, the latch being moveable by an actuator (20) between an engaged position in which the portions are substantially non-moveable with respect of one another and a disengaged position in which the portions are moveable with respect to one another; wherein the latch is biased towards the engaged position.
US11149897B2
A pig for a coating device wherein the coating device has a line system that can be pigged, wherein the pig has an RFID transponder, which is designed to store and/or to transmit and/or to receive data by means of the RFID technology. A coating system for coating an object with a coating material and to a method for controlling a coating system.
US11149886B1
A safety coupler for an air hose terminating in a plug. The plug has a passageway between its first and second ends for the passage of air there through. The coupler member has upstream and downstream ends and first body coupler passageway sized for receiving a first cylindrical section of the plug and terminating in a washer. A sleeve coupler and spring for biasing the sleeve coupler towards the coupler member upstream end, the sleeve coupler terminating at its coupler member upstream end by a bushing plug being sized to create a shoulder for abutting a raised stop of the plug. A reduced diameter plug receiving passageway is located downstream of the sleeve coupler and is sized to receive the plug and for receiving pressurized air passing through the plug passageway, and a sleeve slide valve threadably engageable to the washer such that when the plug enters the coupler member, the plug having a raised stop abuts the first body coupler resulting in the washer being displaced towards the coupler member downstream end whereupon the sleeve slide valve threadably captures the washer preventing the plug from disconnecting from the coupler member.
US11149885B2
A high pressure swivel comprises a first tube; a second tube; and a plurality of balls contained between a plurality of bearing races and a plurality of complimentary bearing races, wherein the first tube and the second tube comprise a carburizing grade micro-alloy steel, wherein the carburizing grade micro-alloy steel comprises a yield strength of greater than about 110,000 psi, a tensile strength of greater than about 130,000 psi, an elongation of greater than about 14%, a reduction area of greater than about 45%, and a longitudinal Charpy v-notch of greater than about 31 ft/lbs longitudinal at about −40° C., and a nickel concentration of less than about 1 wt. %, by weight of the carburizing grade micro-alloy steel, and a carbon content of less than about 0.15 wt. %, by weight of the carburizing grade micro-alloy steel.
US11149883B2
A coupling includes a male adapter and a female adapter, and may include a nut and a sleeve. In embodiments, the male adapter includes a male adapter inner diameter, and may include threads. A method of operating a fluid coupling may include providing a first member, a second member, a nut, and a sleeve, connecting the sleeve with the nut such that rotation of the sleeve causes rotation of the nut, rotating the sleeve to connect the first member with the second member, engaging an inner ratchet profile of the sleeve with a ratchet profile of a shoulder of the first member, and covering the shoulder of the first member, including the ratchet profile, with the sleeve.
US11149870B2
A recirculation valve includes a housing including a hot water fluid passage which is used to allow the hot water to flow through, a cold water fluid passage to allow the cold water to flow through, and a recirculation fluid passage to allow the hot water in the hot water fluid passage to flow into the cold water fluid passage, a water pressure plate provided to close the recirculation fluid passage when the cold water or the hot water is used, and to open the recirculation fluid passage when the cold and hot waters are not used, and a bimetal plate configured to open the recirculation fluid passage as the bimetal plate is spaced apart from a recirculation opening and to close the recirculation fluid passage by making contact with the recirculation opening, and positioned downstream of the recirculation opening in a direction in which the hot water flows.
US11149863B2
A valve for mixing two gas streams, having a housing, a first gas inlet, a second gas inlet, and a gas outlet. The gas inlets are fluidically connected to the gas outlet. Downstream of the first gas inlet there is a guide element mounted displaceably inside the housing. By displacing the guide element, it is possible to control a flow cross section of a flow transfer opening for the transfer flow of the gas volume flowing in through the first gas inlet to the gas outlet through the guide element.
US11149849B2
The invention relates to a linear actuator (1) for an automobile transmission comprising an electric motor (6) for moving a transmission control member (5) between a plurality of shift positions, a spring (15) for driving the transmission control member (5) to an end position of the shift range in case of electric power failure, and a worm screw (7) to drive a displaceable worm wheel (10) with a pinion (11) meshing with a displaceable gear rack (12). The transmission control member (5) is displaceably coupled to the worm wheel (10). The gear rack (2) is blocked by an electrically activated lock against linear displacement with the spring (15) in a compressed state such that upon interruption of power supply to the lock the gear rack (12) is released and linearly displaced by the spring (15) thereby shifting the transmission control element (5) to its end position.
US11149848B2
An automatic transmission with a brake is provided, the brake including a hub member coupled to a transmission case. The hub member includes a first hub member having a cylindrical part spline-engaged with friction plates and the transmission case, and forming a disengagement hydraulic chamber, a second hub member disposed at one side of the first hub member in the axial direction, fitted into the transmission case, and coupled to the one side of the first hub member in the axial direction by a first coupling member, and a third hub member disposed at the other side of the first hub member in the axial direction, coupled to the other side of the first hub member in the axial direction by a second coupling member, and forming an engagement hydraulic chamber. The first coupling member and the second coupling member are disposed radially inward of the disengagement hydraulic chamber.
US11149840B2
The invention concerns a process for the assembly of an epicyclic or planetary gear train of a planet gear carrier comprising one or more bores, each of the bores being intended to receive a pivot (18), the process comprising the following steps: a) manufacturing of at least one pivot (18) comprising a real axis (46) distinct from a theoretical axis; b) measuring the position of a real axis of each of said one or more bores of the carrier; c) for each bore of the carrier, mounting a pivot (18) in said bore and orienting it angularly so that the eccentricity of the pivot (18) at least partially makes up for the eccentricity of said bore.
US11149839B2
In at least some implementations, an automotive driveline unit includes a main housing having an interior and a first reservoir in the interior arranged to collect lubricant, the main housing also having a feed passage that is open to the first reservoir, a gear located within the interior and having a periphery arranged in the first reservoir so that rotation of the gear causes the gear to engage and displace some of the lubricant from the first reservoir, and a second housing carried by the main housing. A second reservoir is defined between the main housing and the second housing, the second reservoir is communicated with the first reservoir via the feed passage and includes multiple, spaced apart outlets through which lubricant exits the second reservoir at different locations to provide lubricant to different areas of the interior of the main housing.
US11149832B2
A differential hypoid gear, a pinion gear, and paired hypoid gears formed by a combination thereof are provided. The differential hypoid gear includes a ring-shaped main body and a tooth-forming surface, and has a chemical component composition including C: 0.15-0.30 mass %, Si: 0.55-1.00 mass %, Mn: 0.50-1.20 mass %, Cr: 0.50-1.50 mass %, Al: 0.020-0.080 mass %, B: 0.0005-0.0050 mass %, Ti: 0.01-0.08 mass %, N: 0.0020-0.0100 mass %, Mo: 0.25 mass % or less, and Nb: less than 0.10 mass %, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The chemical component composition satisfies Formulae 1 and 2. The differential hypoid gear has a metallographic structure including mainly tempered martensite. A martensite ratio at an inside of a dedendum differs between an end portion of a tooth and a central portion of the tooth within a range of 15% or less. A core hardness of the dedendum at the central portion falls within 350-500 HV.
US11149829B2
Provided is an electric actuator including: a drive part (2); a motion conversion mechanism part (3) configured to convert a rotary motion from the drive part (2) into a linear motion a transmission gear mechanism (28) configured to transmit a driving force from the drive part (2) to the motion conversion mechanism part (3); and a lock mechanism part (7) configured to prevent the drive by the motion conversion mechanism part (3), wherein the transmission gear mechanism (28) includes a first gear (30) arranged on the drive part (2) side and a second gear (31) arranged on the motion conversion mechanism part (3) side, and wherein the lock mechanism part (7) is arranged on an opposite side of the drive part (2) with respect to the first gear (30), and on the motion conversion mechanism part (3) side with respect to a rotation center line of the first gear (30).
US11149818B2
A rotary device includes two rotatable rotors and two stopper mechanisms. The first and second stopper mechanisms restrict relative rotation between the rotors. The first stopper mechanism includes a first protruding member and a first contact surface. The first protruding member includes an elastic outer peripheral part. The first contact surface is disposed at an interval from the first protruding member. The first protruding member contacts the first contact surface when a torsion angle between the rotors reaches a first angle. The second stopper mechanism includes a second protruding member and a second contact surface. The second protruding member includes an outer peripheral part having higher stifffiess than that of the first protruding member. The second contact surface is disposed at an interval from the second protruding member. The second protruding member contacts the second contact surface when the torsion angle reaches a second angle greater than the first angle.
US11149813B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, comprising a cylinder (3) and a piston (4) movably arranged inside the cylinder (3), wherein the piston (4) has a closed end, an open end (6) and a piston wall surrounding a cavity (8) of the piston (4) between the closed end and the open end (5), the piston (4) being movable along a longitudinal axis (5) of the cylinder (3) by hydraulic pressure within the cavity (8) for pressing at least one brake pad (9) against a brake disc (2). An outer diameter of the piston (4) is smaller in a central section (13) between the open end (6) and the closed end than at the open end (6) and at the closed end so that, in the central section (13), a space (14) remains between the piston wall and an inner wall of the cylinder (3).
US11149803B1
A sprag clutch has an inner race, an outer race, and a radial cavity between the races. A plurality of sprags are disposed in the radial cavity, and each sprag is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to its longitudinal axis. A sprag cage retains each of the plurality of sprags at a uniform spacing within the radial cavity, and a plurality of actuators are positioned to exert or withdraw a force upon a corresponding sprag.
US11149800B1
A fluid actuated clutch (40) includes a disc pack (120) that includes friction discs (122) and separator discs (124) mounted on a hub (50). A cylinder (68) which includes a movable piston (72) is in connection with the hub. The introduction and release of fluid to a variable volume chamber (76) selectively applies force to the disc pack to engage the clutch and releases the force to disengage the clutch. The clutch includes internal bearings (90, 82). Grease or other lubricant material is injected into a radially extending lubricant passage (96). The lubricant is held in the area of the bearings and other moving parts by rigid annular grease shields (93, 79). Annular grease release gaps (61, 107) prevent over packing with lubricant while maintaining lubrication and facilitating cooling.
US11149796B2
A power take off includes a housing, an input mechanism that is supported in the housing and is adapted to be rotatably driven by a source of rotational energy, and an output mechanism that is supported in the housing and is rotatably driven by the input mechanism, the output mechanism being adapted to rotatably drive a rotatably driven accessory. The power take off further includes a two piece damping assembly that minimizes the transmission of torque transients from the input mechanism to the output mechanism. The two piece damping assembly may be an input cluster gear assembly that includes a first gear portion and a second gear portion that are supported for rotational movement relative to one another. The two piece damping assembly may also be part of a clutch assembly for selectively the output mechanism to be rotatably driven by the input mechanism.
US11149782B2
A method can include: providing a connecting rod device disposed inside of a cylinder of an engine, the connecting rod device coupled to a piston head and extending therefrom, the connecting rod device including a variable-length connecting rod and a connecting rod magnet movably coupled to the variable-length connecting rod; and adjusting a length of the connecting rod by supplying a current to pass through a solenoid wrapped around the cylinder, the current passing through the solenoid generating a magnetic field which activates the connecting rod magnet. The activation of the connecting rod magnet can cause an increase or a decrease of the length of the connecting rod.
US11149781B2
A cable release system configured to actuate a latch mechanism includes a cable arrangement configured to shift in response to an actuation force. The shifting of the cable arrangement is thereby configured to actuate the latch mechanism. The cable release system also includes a lockout mechanism configured to selectively impede shifting of the cable arrangement in response to the actuation force. Such selective impeding of the shifting of the cable arrangement is thereby configured to prevent actuation of the latch mechanism. A vehicle may employ the cable release system configured to actuate a latch mechanism to thereby unlatch a panel from the vehicle body.
US11149763B2
A hydraulic actuator includes a cylinder, a pump, an electric motor and a central block. The mechanism or the rotating parts of the pump are directly installed in an interior of the block, and the drive shaft of the pump is correspondingly mounted in walls or in covers of the block.
US11149753B2
A controller (45) is provided with an elapse time measuring section (47A) that measures an elapse time (tx) elapsed since an initial use of an accumulator (29) based upon a reset signal from a reset switch (44), a number-of-operations measuring section (47B) that measures a number of operations of the accumulator (29), that is, a number (N) of boom lowering operations after a reset, based upon a detection signal from an accumulator side pressure sensor (39), a gas permeation amount estimating section (47C) that estimates an estimation gas permeation amount (Qloss) of the accumulator (29), a sealed gas pressure estimating section (47D) that finds an estimation sealed gas pressure (Pgs) of a gas chamber (29B) of the accumulator (29), and an accumulator degradation determining section (47E) that determines a degradation condition of the accumulator (29) and outputs the determination result.
US11149752B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum pump using a profile. The vacuum pump according to the present invention comprises: a hollow profile having a longitudinal mounting hole and a vacuum chamber formed adjacent to each other; an ejector pump arranged inside the mounting hole in the longitudinal direction; and end caps provided in both openings of the profile, respectively, so as to have a through-hole formed therein so as to correspond to the inflow opening or the discharge opening. Particularly, the first cap near the inflow opening is designed to have a passage through which the vacuum chamber and the mounting hole communicate with each other. The vacuum pump structure according to the present invention is considered to be a vacuum pump structure using at least a so-called “profile” best designed to make fabrication of the vacuum pump convenient and to improve vacuum characteristics.
US11149751B2
A technique for controlling a rotating stall in a compressor of a gas turbine engine. In the technique a flow injection is introduced into an axial air flow path of the compressor via a flow-injection opening located at a pressure side of a guide vane in the compressor and directed towards a leading edge of a compressor rotor blade located adjacently downstream of the guide vane. The flow injection is introduced when the rotating stall is detected and/or when the compressor is being operated at a speed lower than full load speed. The flow injection reduces an angle of incidence of compressor air on the leading edge of the downstream rotor blade and hence the rotor sees a more favorable velocity. The favorable velocity results into an increase in the operating range of the rotor and hence of the compressor by mitigating and/or reducing the rotating stalls.
US11149745B2
Methods and systems are provided for preventing compressor surge while improving compressor efficiency and performance. In one example, a method may include a recirculation passage in a compressor configured with a casing treatment and the recirculation passage being cooled by a cooling jacket within the compressor housing wall. In another example, the recirculation passage includes guide vanes.
US11149738B2
In an illustrative embodiment, a control system to synchronize a number of slave fans to a master fan may include a master voltage controlled oscillator to receive input voltages, rotate master blades of the master fan pursuant to the input voltages, and provide reference synchronization signals; a slave voltage controlled oscillator to receive the input voltages modified by a gain, rotate slave blades of the slave fan at slave fan speed pursuant to the input voltages, and provide slave synchronization signals; and a phase lock loop configured to receive the reference synchronization signals and the slave synchronization signals, provide a comparison between the reference slave synchronization signals, and provide the gain pursuant to the comparison between the reference synchronization signals and the slave synchronization signals.
US11149727B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a pumping element of a fuel pump for an internal combustion engine wherein the pumping element comprises a first flow chamber; a second flow chamber in fluid connection with the first flow chamber, the second flow chamber including a shoulder; a check valve including a first insert and a second insert, the first insert being movable between a first position wherein the first insert forms a seal that inhibits fluid flow between the first and second flow chambers and a second position wherein the first insert permits fluid flow between the first and second flow chambers, the second insert being inserted into the second flow chamber to an extent limited by the shoulder; and a spring having a first end engaging the first insert and a second end engaging the second insert; wherein the first insert moves from the first position to the second position against a biasing force of the spring in response to pressurized fluid in the first flow chamber.
US11149725B2
This disclosure relates to a hydraulic pump system for handling a slurry medium comprising at least two reciprocating positive displacement pumps, both pumps being arranged for alternating intake of slurry medium via a suction inlet and discharge of slurry medium via a discharge outlet, and piston/cylinder discharge valves for alternating closing and opening each discharge outlet. In a first aspect, a hydraulic pump system for handling a slurry medium, comprising at least two reciprocating positive displacement pumps, both pumps being arranged for alternating intake of slurry medium via a suction inlet and discharge of slurry medium via a discharge outlet, and piston/cylinder discharge valves for alternating closing and opening each discharge outlet, as well as control means for controlling the alternate closing and opening of both piston/cylinder discharge valves, such that during operation no volume difference occurs in the discharge of slurry medium is disclosed. In another aspect the control means comprise a lever assembly interconnecting the pistons of both piston/cylinder driven valves.
US11149717B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wind turbine inspection system. One of the methods includes obtaining first sensor information by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the first sensor information describing physical aspects of a wind turbine, including one or more blades of the wind turbine. An orientation of the blades of the wind turbine are determined based on the obtained first sensor information. A flight pattern for the UAV to inspect the blades of the wind turbine is determined, the flight pattern being based on the determined orientation of the blades. Each of the blades of the wind turbine is inspected by the UAV according to the determined flight pattern, the inspection including obtaining second sensor information describing the blades of the wind turbine.
US11149715B2
A vertical axis wind turbine with improved safety, production efficiency and greater functional wind speed range. A vertical axis wind turbine comprises turbine blades having geometric characteristics of a “yin yang” symbol when viewed from the top down. The turbine blades are configured to form a scoop portion for catching wind. The surface area of the scoop portion may be dynamically configured to accommodate power production in higher wind speed ranges by dynamically furling the blades to reduce the surface area of the scoop portion as RPM begins to exceed a safe limit. First and second permanent magnet rotor arrays are dynamically positioned above and below an array of stator coils to maximize power generation.
US11149709B2
A method to reduce noise and vibration between separate blade segments of a jointed wind turbine rotor blade includes determining an actual offset at a chord-wise joint line between the shell members of the first and second blade segments at a load condition on the jointed wind turbine rotor blade, wherein the offset is any one or combination of a flap-wise offset, a twist-wise offset, or a yawl-wise offset. The method defines a modified configuration of the joint structure at a no-load condition on the wind turbine rotor blade that compensates at least partially for the actual offset at the load condition, and the first and second blade segments are connected with the modified configuration of the joint structure.
US11149704B2
A method of testing a fuel injection system or components thereof includes running a high pressure fuel pump to provide fluid under pressure to the fuel injection system or components. The pump flow is controlled via an inlet metering valve by controlling current or voltage supplied to the inlet metering valve dependent on the power to the fuel pump.
US11149701B2
A filtration monitoring system is an electronic system control module installed on an internal combustion engine or within a vehicle powered by the internal combustion engine. The filtration monitoring system monitors the health and status of the filtration systems present on the engine. The filtration monitoring system tracks filter loading patterns and predicts remaining service life of the filters by running smart algorithms based on sensor feedback (e.g., pressure sensor feedback, fluid quality characteristic sensor feedback, etc.). In some arrangements, the described filtration monitoring systems provide feedback as to whether a genuine (i.e., authorized, OEM approved, etc.) or unauthorized filter cartridge is installed in a given filtration system. The filtration monitoring system may be retrofit into an existing internal combustion engine or vehicle that does not already have a filtration monitoring system.
US11149695B1
A compressor inlet pipe is installed to connect an EGR valve to an inlet of a compressor of a charger and is made of a thermally conductive material. A gas pocket is formed at the compressor inlet pipe and a gas supply device is configured to draw gas from an outlet of the compressor of the charger and supply the gas to the gas pocket. A gas discharge device is configured to discharge the gas in the gas pocket.
US11149681B2
The present disclosure provides a piston, comprising: a skirt having an upper body portion; and a crown formed on the upper body portion by an additive manufacturing process, the crown including at least one air gap formed and positioned to reduce heat transfer from combustion to at least one cooling gallery formed in the piston.
US11149676B2
A two-stroke internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder provided with a combustion chamber and an outlet and having a crank housing provided with a crank shaft. The housing is flow-connected to the combustion chamber via at least one transfer port, and the internal combustion engine is formed to inject fuel into the transfer port, against the transfer port from the crank housing into the combustion chamber; the internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder having two injectors, and fuel can be introduced by means of only one injector with a first engine load and by means of the two injectors with a second engine load.
US11149675B2
A fuel injection control device for an engine is provided. A swirl generator generates a swirl flow inside a combustion chamber. A fuel injector with multiple nozzle holes injects fuel into the combustion chamber, and forms a lean mixture gas inside the combustion chamber. An spark plug ignites the lean mixture gas to cause a portion of the mixture gas to start combustion accompanied by flame propagation, and then combusts by self-ignition. The fuel injector has first and second nozzle holes, and a first atomized fuel spray injected from the first nozzle hole and a second atomized fuel spray injected from the second nozzle hole separate from each other by the swirl flow. The fuel injector sequentially performs a first injection and a second injection in an intake stroke. The controller makes an injection amount of the second injection greater than that of the first injection.
US11149673B2
An ECU includes a cooling water temperature sensor, an intake air temperature sensor, a storage unit, a determination unit, and a calibration unit. In an after-run control performed after the internal combustion engine stops, the determination unit compares a cooling water temperature Tw detected by the cooling water temperature sensor with a first threshold value T1 and determines that the environment is not the cold environment in which an EGR differential pressure sensor is likely to be frozen, if the cooling water temperature Tw is equal to or higher than the first threshold value T1, or if the cooling water temperature Tw is less than the first threshold value T1 but is equal to or higher than a second threshold value T2 which is lower than the first threshold value T1 and an intake air temperature Ta from the intake air temperature sensor is equal to or higher than a third threshold value T3, and determines that the environment is the cold environment otherwise. When the environment is determined as not to be the cold environment, the calibration unit obtains a calibration reference value based on the detection value from the EGR differential pressure sensor. The storage unit stores the calibration reference value obtained by the calibration unit.
US11149662B2
The present invention relates to a zero emission propulsion system and generator sets using ammonia (NH3) as fuel for engines and power plants such as steam boilers (5) for steam turbines (7), piston engines (9), fuel cells (10) or Stirling engines (11). Due to the poor flammability of ammonia (NH3), a hydrogen reactor (4) can split ammonia (NH3) into hydrogen (H2) and nitrogen (N2). The hydrogen (H2) can be placed in a hydrogen tank (8) for intermediate storage and the nitrogen can be stored in a nitrogen tank (6). The hydrogen (H2) could be mixed with ammonia (NH3) to improve flammability and thus facilitate the ignition of an air/ammonia (NH3) mixture in engines or power plants (5, 9, 11). Alternatively, hydrogen (¾) may be supplied in a separate fuel system (5-1, 9-5, 11-8) as a pilot fuel for pilot ignition of an air/ammonia (NH3) mixture. The hydrogen (H2) can also be used in AIP systems along with oxygen (O2) from an oxygen tank (22). The hydrogen (H2) will then be used for fuel cells (10), for combustion in a steam turbine inlet/high pressure side (7-1), or in a Stirling engine (11). In addition to hydrogen (H2), other bio and fossil fuels from the fuel tank (12) can be used as pilot fuel for pilot ignition of an air/ammonia (NH3) mixture. The advantage of using existing bio or fossil fuels for pilot ignition is that engines or power plants (5, 9, 11) will have a pilot fuel system with sufficient capacity to maintain normal operations if ammonia (NH3) is not available. Alternatively, that engines or power plants (5, 9, 11) have an additional fuel system for existing bio or fossil fuels in order to maintain normal operations if ammonia (NH3) is not available. The nitrogen (N2) in the nitrogen tank (6) can be used as a gas in fire extinguishing systems or for submarine ballast tank blows.
US11149656B1
A throttle body for an engine includes a throttle body housing, a throttle body plate supported by and rotatable within the throttle body housing, and a tab carried by the throttle body housing and movable between a first position in which the tab is in direct contact with the throttle body plate to prevent rotation of the throttle body plate and maintain the throttle body plate in a closed position, and a second position in which the tab is not in direct contact with the throttle body plate to permit rotation of the throttle body plate.
US11149640B2
A seal testing tool for use with a bearing housing of a gas turbine engine including: a first end surface; a second end surface opposite the first end surface; and a boss extending away from the first end surface. The boss extending from a proximal end located at the first end surface to a distal end located opposite the proximal end. The boss includes: a passageway extending from the distal end to the second end surface through the boss; an external surface extending from the proximal end to the distal end; and a seal groove in the external surface located at the proximal end of the boss.
US11149635B1
System and methods are provided that use a recharge device to resupply a reservoir and tank with fluids used to power a turbine, which in turn powers a generator, wherein one of the resupplied fluids is used to cool a load that is powered by the generator.
US11149629B2
A hybrid engine having a plurality of combustion power assemblies disposed about an engine driveshaft on which is mounted spaced apart cams, each combustion power assembly disposed between the cams radially outward of the driveshaft and having a combustion cylinder with a fuel injector mounted thereon and with a reciprocating piston assembly disposed in each end of the combustion cylinder. A cam follower is attached to each piston assembly and engages a respective cam. An electric power assembly may be mounted radially outward from the driveshaft and adjacent at least one cam as a radial power assembly or may be mounted along the driveshaft between the two cams as an axial power assembly.
US11149626B2
A method of rapidly cooling a high temperature vehicle coolant is disclosed. The method includes determining a coolant temperature lowering entry condition by detecting information on the coolant temperature, an engine speed, and a gear state and determining whether the coolant temperature needs to be rapidly lowered on the basis of the detected information; and changing a number of gear stages by adjusting the number of gear stages of a transmission to be reduced to a specific number of gear stages when the coolant temperature needs to be rapidly lowered in the determining of the coolant temperature lowering entry condition, so that the cooling fan is driven by driving the fan belt through a crank damper pulley using the increased engine speed according to the reducing adjustment of the number of gear stages.
US11149610B2
A nitrous oxide (N2O) removal catalyst composite is provided, comprising a N2O removal catalytic material on a substrate, the catalytic material comprising a rhodium (Rh) component supported on a ceria-based support, wherein the catalyst composite has a H2-consumption peak of about 100° C. or less as measured by hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction (H2-TPR). Methods of making and using the same are also provided.
US11149609B2
An SCR system includes at least one catalyst, and an intake conduit. The intake conduit includes an intake conduit first sidewall, at least a portion of which defines a first curvature. An intake conduit second sidewall is coupled to the intake conduit first sidewall so as to define the intake conduit. A catalyst is fluidly coupled to the intake conduit through the intake conduit second sidewall. The intake conduit second sidewall is inclined at a first angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the SCR system, such that an intake conduit second end cross-section of the intake conduit is smaller than an intake conduit first end cross-section. An intake conduit third sidewall is positioned at the intake conduit second end. The intake conduit is structured to produce an even flow split of the exhaust gas through the intake conduit internal volume towards the catalyst.
US11149598B2
A fuel injection control device includes an additional energization unit. Concerning an undershoot state caused by a first energization for fuel injection, a return period is an estimated period required for a movable core to return to an initial position from a first energization. An injection interval ranges from the first energization to a second energization that is for a next fuel injection. An allowable period is obtained by subtracting a rise period estimated for the second energization from the return period. The additional energization unit adds an additional energization between the first energization and the second energization when the injection interval is longer than or equal to the allowable period and is shorter than or equal to the return period.
US11149597B2
A valve drive for an internal combustion engine, including a gas exchange valve; a first mechanically driven drive mechanism; and a second drive mechanism connected to the gas exchange valve to move same. The first and second drive mechanisms connected via a hydraulic coupling device that has a pressure chamber, which can be relieved of pressure via a valve device and is designed to couple the drive mechanisms by hydraulic pressure and to decouple same in a pressure-relieved state. The valve device has two switch valves fluidically connected to the pressure chamber in parallel and via which the pressure chamber is relieved of pressure in the open state of at least one of the switch valves. The valve drive has a controller that actuates the switch valves in a delayed manner to provide a variable valve stroke of the gas exchange valve during a stroke movement.
US11149594B2
Even in the case where, due to distortion (undulation) or the like of an end surface of an adjusting screw abutting on a valve stem end, there exists a non-linear undulation movement amount in a movement amount of the end surface with respect to a rotation return angle of the adjusting screw, the undulation movement amount is continuously measured, and a screw return movement amount based on a screw pitch and on the rotation return angle is continuously calculated, and, when a total movement amount of the undulation movement amount and the screw return movement amount has attained a prescribed clearance, return rotation is ended.
US11149593B2
A tappet assembly including an outer cup having a substantially cylindrical side wall, an annular lip portion disposed at a first end of the side wall, and an annular ledge disposed on the side wall, the annular ledge being disposed in a plane that is transverse to a longitudinal center axis of the tappet assembly. An inner cup includes an annular lip extending outwardly therefrom and a pair of shaft apertures, and is disposed in the outer cup so that the lip abuts the annular ledge of the outer cup and is non-rotatably fixed thereto by the annular lip of the outer cup which abuts the lip of the inner cup. A shaft is received in the shaft apertures, and a roller tappet is rotatably received on the shaft such that a portion of the roller tappet extends axially outwardly beyond the annular lip portion of the outer cup, and an alignment device formed in the outer cup.
US11149592B2
A composite power generating device of the present invention includes an engine (110), a first flow line (121), a turbocharger (130), a second flow line (122), a third flow line (123), a compressor (211), a first medium line (221), a medium turbine (212), a second medium line (222), a working medium cooler (213), a recuperator (215), a power generating unit (214), a cross-line (233), a first heat exchanger (251), a second heat exchanger (252), and a third heat exchanger (253).
US11149590B2
An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes ceramic material containing (i.e. ceramic matrix composite) segments and joints that couple the segments together.
US11149582B2
Methods and Systems for health-monitoring of a multi-channel pressure transducer of a gas turbine engine are described. The method comprises monitoring a deviation between a first channel and a second channel of a multi-channel pressure transducer over time, determining a rate of change of the deviation, extrapolating a trend over time based on the rate of change of the deviation to predict when the deviation will reach a threshold, and triggering a maintenance action for the pressure transducer based on the trend.
US11149578B2
A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a turbomachine, a primary fan, and an electric machine. The turbomachine includes a first turbine and a second turbine, with at least one of the first turbine or second turbine operably connected to the electric machine and the second turbine driving the primary fan. The propulsion system additionally includes an auxiliary propulsor assembly configured to be mounted at a location away from the turbomachine and the primary fan. The electric machine is in electrical communication with the auxiliary propulsor assembly for transferring power with the auxiliary propulsor assembly during operation of the propulsion system.
US11149577B2
A device for controlling the clearance between a rotor and a stator surrounding same, which is carried out by modifying the delivery flow carried in a rotor recess in order to provide a bleed flow that prevents the gases from the flow section from penetrating into the recess. A valve can partially close the delivery circuit, thus reducing the cooling of the rotor structure and allowing the expansion thereof and the reduction of the clearance with the stator, for certain operating speeds including cruise operating speeds. In addition, the delivery air is heated more at a lower flow rate, especially if it is made to follow a bypass provided with meanders in the hottest portions of the circuit.
US11149576B2
A turbine shroud assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a carrier, a blade track segment and a mounting assembly. The carrier is made from metallic materials. The blade track segment is made from ceramic matrix composite materials. The mounting assembly is configured to couple the blade track segment to the carrier.
US11149572B2
A flowpath component includes a body having at least one internal cooling passage. The internal cooling passage is defined by a surface layer including a first material, and an interior layer comprising a second material. The second material is distinct from the first material. The surface layer and the internal layer are additively manufactured as a single unitary structure.
US11149569B2
Flow path assemblies of gas turbine engines are provided. For example, a flow path assembly comprises an inner wall and a unitary outer wall that includes a combustor portion extending through a combustion section of the gas turbine engine and a turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section of the gas turbine engine. The combustor portion and the turbine portion are integrally formed as a single unitary structure. The flow path assembly further comprises a plurality of nozzle airfoils, each nozzle airfoil having an inner end radially opposite an outer end. The inner wall or the unitary outer wall defines a plurality of openings therethrough, and each opening is configured for receipt of one of the plurality of nozzle airfoils. Methods of assembling flow path assemblies also are provided.
US11149566B2
A guide vane in an outer section of a turbofan engine contains oil cooling cavities which are located on one side of a main bending axis of the vane so that the differential thermal expansions compensate for the bending deformations caused by the aerodynamic forces exerted on the outer vane surface.
US11149564B2
An aircraft nacelle arrangement includes a compression rod disposed between a first nacelle half and a second nacelle half, wherein the first nacelle half and the second nacelle half are rotatable about a hinge between a closed position and an open position, a compression rod disposed between the first nacelle half and the second nacelle half, and a mounting bracket coupled to an exhaust nozzle flange of the aircraft engine, wherein the compression rod extends through the mounting bracket.
US11149561B2
Systems and methods of forming a ceramic matrix composite vane with profiled endwalls are provided using a multi-piece tooling. The multi-piece tooling includes core tools as well as profiled endwall tools having three dimensional contours formed in the tools that correspond to the three dimensional shape to be formed on the vane endwalls.
US11149555B2
An apparatus and method for a turbine engine for can include an engine component. The engine component can include an interior cooling passage at least partially defining a cooling circuit for passing a flow of cooling fluid through the component. Film holes provide for exhausting a portion of the cooling fluid to an exterior of the component, to form a cooling film along an exterior hot surface of the engine component. A deflector can be position within the cooling passage upstream form the film hole.
US11149553B2
An airfoil assembly for use in a turbine of a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil that extends radially relative to an axis. The airfoil includes an inner surface that defines a cooling cavity that extends radially into the airfoil and an outer surface that defines a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a section side of the airfoil. The airfoil assembly further includes features for increasing the heat transfer coefficient of the airfoil.
US11149548B2
A cooling circuit for a gas turbine engine includes a gas turbine engine component having at least one internal cooling cavity defined by an internal wall surface and a plurality of turbulent flow features extending outwardly from the internal wall surface. Each turbulent flow feature is spaced apart from an adjacent turbulent flow feature in a first direction. At least one trench extends through the turbulent flow features in the first direction, and a plurality of cooling holes are formed within the at least one trench. A gas turbine engine and a method of forming a cooling circuit for a gas turbine engine component are also disclosed.
US11149546B2
A cable handling system for a longwall mining machine is disclosed. The longwall mining machine includes a shearer configured to move along a pan line to mine material along a mine face. The cable handling system includes a service line configured to carry one or more supply lines to the shearer for facilitating shearer operation. Further, a plurality of interconnected trays accommodates the service line. Moreover, a controller is configured to determine a profile of the pan line; detect one or more parameters associated with the service line in relation to the profile of the pan line; and determine a likelihood of at least a portion of the service line dislodging from the plurality of interconnected trays based on the one or more parameters exceeding a predefined threshold.
US11149544B2
A technique facilitates communication in a subsea well application. The technique involves deployment of a blowout preventer subsea control and telemetry system to a subsea location proximate a wellbore. The blowout preventer subsea control and telemetry system is coupled to both a blowout preventer system and a wireless telemetry system. The wireless telemetry system has a plurality of repeaters deployed along the wellbore. The blowout preventer subsea control and telemetry system is used both to collect data from the wireless telemetry system and to control operation of the blowout preventer system. For example, the blowout preventer subsea control and telemetry system may receive control signals from a surface system and also relay data to the surface system through a common communication line.
US11149539B2
A planning tool plans movement of a boring tool for an underground drilling operation. The planning tool includes one or more wheels for rolling on a surface of the ground along a path responsive to movement by an operator to characterize the surface contour and to generate guidance for the boring tool to reach a target position. Planning can additionally be based on waypoints. The planning tool can be rolled unidirectionally or bidirectionally to characterize the surface contour. Bidirectional movement cancels accelerometer fixed bias. Path stitching is used to plan around obstacles. The planning tool can facilitate tracker placement. The planning tool can collect noise information for frequency selection purposes. A described technique maximizes linear drilling in an underground plan. Compensation and/or warnings are provided for unsteady, fast and slow movement of the planning tool while measuring the surface contour.
US11149537B2
A method and electromagnetic ranging system for determining the location of a target well. A method may comprise taking a first measurement with an electromagnetic ranging tool at a first position and calculating a first modeled signal. Additionally, calculating a calibration for the electromagnetic ranging tool from at least the first measurement and the first modeled signal, taking a second measurement with the electromagnetic ranging tool at a second position, and calculating a calibrated measurement. The method may comprise determining a distance, direction, and/or orientation to a target wellbore using at least the calibrated measurement. An electromagnetic ranging system may comprise an electromagnetic ranging tool and an information handling system coupled to the electromagnetic ranging tool. The information handling system may be operable to calibrate the electromagnetic ranging tool, calculate a gain of the electromagnetic ranging tool, and apply the gain to a measured signal from the electromagnetic ranging tool.
US11149533B1
Systems and methods for monitoring, detecting, and/or intervening with respect to cavitation and pulsation events during hydraulic fracturing operations may include a supervisory controller. The supervisory controller may be configured to receive pump signals indicative of one or more of pump discharge pressure, pump suction pressure, pump speed, or pump vibration associated with operation of the hydraulic fracturing pump. The supervisory controller also may be configured to receive blender signals indicative of one or more of blender flow rate or blender discharge pressure. Based on one or more of these signals, the supervisory controller may be configured to detect a cavitation event and/or a pulsation event. The supervisory controller may be configured to generate a cavitation notification signal indicative of detection of cavitation associated with operation of the hydraulic fracturing pump, and/or a pulsation notification signal indicative of detection of pulsation associated with operation of the hydraulic fracturing pump.
US11149531B2
A method of producing temperature and pressure conditioned fluids using a fuel cell. The fuel cell generates an anode exhaust stream of water vapour and carbon dioxide. The water in the exhaust stream is condensed and separated to produce a stream of water and a stream of carbon dioxide. A first portion of the stream of water is heated to produce a stream of steam, which is combined with the fuel to form the anode input stream. A stream of condensed carbon dioxide is obtained by condensing at least a portion of the carbon dioxide in the stream of carbon dioxide. At least one fluid is heated and compressed to a target temperature and pressure for each fluid, the at least one fluid comprising a second portion of the stream of water or at least a portion of the condensed carbon dioxide.
US11149526B2
Determination of the optimal fluid pulses for enhancement of reservoir permeability and productivity
A method of oscillating a pressure in a borehole is provided that includes determining a hydraulic diffusivity, using injection tests, in a borehole, calculating a pressure field using a programmed computer at a proximal distance to the borehole using a first forced oscillation result in a porous media, calculating a flow rate at the proximal distance from the borehole by multiplying a gradient of the pressure field by a measured permeability and dividing by a viscosity of a fluid, computing, using the programmed computer, a volumetrically averaged flow rate by integrating a square of the flow rate over a volume around the borehole, outputting a value of an angular frequency for which the volumetrically-averaged flow rate is maximum, and operating a pump at a second forced oscillation according to the angular frequency on the fluid.
US11149524B2
A downhole tool comprises a housing defining a flow path therethrough in an axial direction from an upper opening to a lower opening. A poppet valve is mounted within the housing. The poppet valve includes an upper member defining an upper chamber mounted in the flow path so that flow through the flow path flows around the upper member, and a valve seat mounted in the flow path with an opening therethrough. A valve poppet is mounted for longitudinal movement within the flow path between a closed position in which the valve poppet seats against the valve seat to block flow through the flow path and an open position in which the valve poppet is spaced apart from the valve seat to permit flow through the flow path. This can restrict/mitigate sand fall-back, e.g., with flow paths designed to prevent/mitigate sand fall-back and for protection of the poppet from sand/debris.
US11149509B2
A drill pipe assembly has an inner tubular member with a Trojan central bore. An outer tubular member circumscribes the inner tubular member. An annular storage space is defined between the outer tubular member and the inner tubular member. An uphole connection member connects to an uphole drill string so that the Trojan central bore is in communication with the uphole drill string. A downhole connection member connects to a downhole drill string so that the Trojan central bore is in communication with the downhole drill string. A window assembly is moveable between a closed position and an open position. In the open position the window assembly provides a flow path between the annular storage space and an outside of the outer tubular member. In the closed position the window assembly prevents a flow between the annular storage space and the outside of the outer tubular member.
US11149500B2
A system including a tool drill string having a downhole device. The system includes at least one external contact to be electrically coupled to the downhole device to communicate with the downhole device, one or more insulators that electrically insulate the at least once external contact from other parts of the system, and one or more seals situated between the one or more insulators and the at least one external contact to pressure seal the system from external fluids.
US11149499B1
Systems and methods for stimulating hydrocarbon bearing formations include using a downhole laser tool. An example laser perforation tool is for perforating a wellbore in a downhole environment within a hydrocarbon bearing formation. The laser perforation tool includes a plurality of perforation units disposed within an elongated body of the laser perforation tool. Each of the plurality of perforation units includes a laser beam redirection tool coupled to a laser head. The beam redirection tool alters a direction of an output laser beam.
US11149495B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to tools capable of amplifying or dampening axial forces produced by downhole equipment. More specifically, apparatus and methodologies provide a tool for imparting amplified axial loads (e.g., a hammer sub), or, in the alternative, for dampening/reducing downhole vibrations or “noise” (e.g., a suppressor sub).
US11149490B2
A box for a system for opening and closing a communication route between two separate areas, the system including separation means suitable for allowing and preventing, respectively, at least partially, crossing of the route by light, may include: a box body configured to accommodate a movement unit of the system; and support elements for the movement unit. The box body may have a major extension direction. The box body may be defined by support and closing profiles, both extending along the direction. The support profile may define at least one upper, lower, and connecting wall. The closing profile may define a closing wall. The closing profile may be removably fixable to the support profile for closing the box body. When the closing profile is fixed to the support profile, a distance between the closing wall and the connecting wall may be less than or equal to 20 millimeters.
US11149482B2
The present disclosure is drawn to a sliding panel latch system and related methods. The sliding panel latch system can comprise a striker, a sliding panel movable relative to the striker, and a latch rotatably coupled to the panel. The latch can have a striker interface to engage the striker. The striker interface can at least partially define a striker opening to receive the striker. The latch can be rotatable to a latch position to secure the striker in the striker opening and to a receive/release position to receive the striker in the striker opening or release the striker from the striker opening.
US11149481B2
The invention relates to a furniture hinge for the articulated securing of a furniture door, leaf or similar to a furniture body, in particular to a frame of a furniture body, comprising a mounting plate for securing the furniture hinge to the furniture body and a hinge body for securing the furniture hinge to the furniture door, leaf or similar, wherein a pivotally mounted hinge arm is associated with the hinge body and wherein the hinge arm can be secured to the mounting plate directly or via at least one connection element secured to the hinge arm. In addition, the hinge arm can be secured to the mounting plate indirectly or directly via a connection system that can be closed without tools. The furniture hinge permits a quick and secure mounting of a furniture door, leaf or similar to a furniture body.
US11149479B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a hinge body. A guide block is fixedly provided on the door, a positioning shaft and a guiding shaft are provided on the hinge body, and a positioning groove and a guiding groove are provided on the guide block; the door of the refrigerator according to the present invention may be moved by a distance in a direction away from a pivoting side when being opened, thereby avoiding inconvenience of opening the door due to the protrusion of the side wall of the door.
US11149477B2
Disclosed are latches with pre-molded or pre-assembled fasteners. The latch fastener can include a threaded portion and a lead in portion that is longer than the threaded portion. During installation of the latch, the lead in portion can be inserted into a cavity of a drawer to help align the latch against the cavity during installation. The built-in fastener frees one hand of the user during installation and the additional length of the lead in allows an easier alignment of the latch during installation.
US11149466B2
A padlock configured to be locked and unlocked by a key includes a key-retaining cover. The padlock includes a lock body having an internal cavity with a locking mechanism received therein. The locking mechanism is a linear lock configured to receive the key through a keyhole to lock and unlock the padlock. A direction of insertion of the key into the locking mechanism is parallel with a direction of displacement of a plurality of tumblers in the locking mechanism thereby creating an outward ejection force on a fully-inserted key. The cover is disposed on the locking mechanism proximate the keyhole. The cover is configured to retain the key in position relative to the locking mechanism against the outward ejection force after the key is received in therein.
US11149464B2
A palapa canopy collapsible frame including a cylindrical central support hub, a plurality of first frame members and second frame members pivotally connected to the cylindrical central support hub, and a plurality of vertical post connected to the first frame members. Each of the vertical posts including cross bar members that secure the vertical post to an adjacent first frame member.
US11149463B2
A multiconfiguration, deployable awning assembly to be mounted to a vehicle, the awning assembly including a housing having at least a rear wall portion to mount relative to a vehicle, a top wall portion and a spaced apart bottom wall portion, at least one deployable arm assembly including a primary pivot mounted between the top wall portion and bottom wall portion of the housing, at least two arms, each arm including a pair of spaced apart elongate members, one upper arm member and one lower arm member, both arm members mounted relative to a pivot, one of the arms mounted relative to the primary pivot and at least one flexible awning sheet mounted relative to the arms, the awning movable between a stored configuration and a deployed configuration by rotation of the arms about the primary pivot.
US11149462B1
A modular shelter system includes a floor panel having a first curved surface along a lateral edge on a top side of the floor panel and a first inside surface located inside of the first curved surface. The modular shelter system additionally includes a wall panel having a second curved surface along a bottom end of the wall panel, wherein the second curved surface is configured to rotate relative to the first curved surface, and wherein the second curved surface is configured to mate with the first curved surface. The wall panel further has a second inside surface located inside of the second curved surface, wherein the second inside surface is configured to mate with the first inside surface when the wall panel is erected over the floor panel.
US11149461B2
Charging device of hybrid or electric vehicles in an automated parking, said device (10) comprising: —a column (100) substantially developing vertically; —a current socket (110) positioned in substantial correspondence of a first terminal portion of the said column (100), and—a supporting element (130) of the said column (100), substantially developing along a direction which is orthogonal respective to the direction defined by said column (100), wherein: —said device (10) of recharge comprises a recess or profile (135) suitable for allowing the introduction of a tooth of a carriage for moving vehicles; —a plurality of electric contacts (195), each of which is cabled with a respective electric contact of the said current socket (110), wherein said plurality of electric contacts (195) is positioned in correspondence of a second terminal portion of the said column (100) opposed respective to said first terminal portion of the said column (100); —said electric contacts (195) being electrically disengaged in case the device (10) is not electrically coupled with coupling contacts of a system of automated parking.
US11149451B2
A tying machine may include a feeding mechanism configured to feed a tying string, a battery, and a voltage detection circuit configured to detect a voltage of the battery. The feeding mechanism may include a feeding motor to which power is supplied from the battery. The tying machine may be configured to set a duty ratio for driving the feeding motor when feeding the tying string, in accordance with the voltage of the battery detected by the voltage detection circuit.
US11149446B2
The present disclosure relates to a floor panel, comprising a laminate of a core layer, comprising a ceramic or mineral material and a binder a first pair of opposite edges, said first pair of opposite edges comprising complementary coupling parts allowing to mutually couple of plurality of floor panels to each other, a top layer, comprising a ceramic material or a natural stone, wherein the side of the core layer facing the top layer comprises a reinforcement layer, locally having a higher density than the density of the rest of the core layer.
US11149439B2
An improved cable molding product that can be easily installed to protect low voltage and line voltage electrical cables in new and existing building construction applications. Its primary benefits are found in decreasing the cost of installation procedures and improving the aesthetics of low voltage electronic system cable and lie voltage cable runs at exterior and interior openings in new and existing buildings. The two-part secure molding system is comprised of a base portion that is mounted for instance to an inside face of rectangular aluminum tubing or any interior wall. Low voltage wiring cable is placed into a rectangular base portion channel. The line voltage wiring is placed into the separate base portion channel. A rectangular cover snaps securely onto and over the base to conceal the cable and wire.
US11149436B2
A roof system includes a roof deck, a weighted cover board disposed upwardly adjacent the roof deck and a plurality of fasteners coupling the weighted cover board to the roof deck.
US11149435B1
Certain aspects relate to an apparatus for fire protection to a peak of a roof of a structure including a fire-retardant conduit mounted to the peak of the roof. The fire-retardant conduit includes a channel having sidewalls, each sidewall including a top portion having a lip; a channel windbreak configured to cover the channel and the lip of the channel; and a fire-retardant source pipe coupling the fire-retardant conduit to a fire-retardant source to supply fire-retardant into the channel.
US11149424B2
A restroom system includes a sanitation station configured for hand washing and a waste station configured to receive a waste material from a user. A suds mixture is flowable through the sanitation station and the waste station and is configured for hand washing and to receive the waste material. The suds mixture includes a fluid layer and a suds layer positionable between the fluid layer and the user so that when the suds mixture receives the waste material the suds layer changes from an original shape to absorb energy and allow passage of the waste material through the suds layer into the fluid layer and then returns toward the original shape to form a protective barrier between the user and the waste material in the fluid layer.
US11149420B1
A splashless sink assembly includes a bottom, an open top located above the bottom, a first side wall extending upwardly from the bottom to the open top at an angle oblique relative to the bottom, and a second side wall disposed opposite the first side wall. The second side wall extends upwardly from the bottom to the open top at an angle oblique relative to the bottom.
US11149415B2
An adapter includes a first leg, a second leg, and a throat portion that define a slot defining a direction of assembly onto a work implement assembly, a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the direction of assembly, and a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the direction of assembly and the lateral direction. The throat portion further includes a first throat side surface disposed along the lateral direction and a second throat side surface disposed on the opposite side of the throat portion along the lateral direction. The first throat side surface defines a first adapter cover receiving recess.
US11149411B2
A controller (40) of a hydraulic excavator (1) includes: a first distance calculation section (43f) calculating a first distance D1 that is a distance between a bucket toe and a target surface on a virtual straight line Lv extended vertically from the bucket toe, based on position information on the bucket toe and position information on the target surface (700); and a second distance calculation section (43g) calculating a second distance D2 that is a distance between the target surface and a current landform on the virtual straight line Lv, based on the position information on the bucket toe and the position information on the target surface and position information on the current landform 800. A display device (53a) displays the first distance D1 and the second distance D2.
US11149408B2
A motor grader is disclosed. The motor grader may include an articulated implement. The motor grader may include an articulation control device. The articulation control device may be configured to determine that articulation motion of the articulated implement is occurring, for a threshold amount of time, in a second direction that is different from a first direction indicated by an articulation control command. The articulation control device may be configured to perform a response action based on determining that articulation motion of the articulated implement is occurring, for the threshold amount of time, in the second direction that is different from the first direction indicated by the articulation control command.
US11149405B2
A grade control indicator assembly is disclosed. The grade control indicator assembly may include a keypad to control one or more functionalities of a machine, where the keypad includes a set of grade control light indicators integrated into the keypad, and where the set of grade control light indicators includes a first subset of grade control light indicators for indicating a grade of the machine with respect to a first side of the machine and a second subset of grade control light indicators for indicating the grade of the machine with respect to a second side of the machine.
US11149400B2
A thin-slotting lifting synchronous grouting device and its usage method are provided. The device includes a hollow force-bearing column through which a feeding pipe passes; wherein: left and right cutting plates are respectively fixedly arranged on each side of the hollow force-bearing column; a left connecting plate is fixedly arranged on an outside of the left cutting plate; a right guiding column is fixedly arranged on an outside of the right cutting plate; center lines of the left connecting plate, the right guiding column and the hollow force-bearing column are in a same plane; a top end of to the feeding pipe is connected to a grouting device, and a bottom end is connected to a spraying device; a spraying nozzle of the spraying device stretches out along the hollow force-bearing column; and a lower end of the hollow force-bearing column is connected with a disposable conical head.
US11149398B2
Described are an apparatus and method for driving piles prior to lifting and stabilizing foundations that have subsided in unstable ground. A press head, comprising two non-slip arms actuated by a safety lever, is connected to an angle cleat-type foundation piece secured to the foundation by a pair of hydraulic rams in order to drive the piles into the ground as far as the bedrock when the rams contract. The apparatus includes a safety system actuated by the lever for controlling the arms. In order to level the building, other hydraulic rams are installed on each driven pile, all connected in series in order that they may be actuated simultaneously in order to lift the building. When the foundations have been adequately raised and levelled, each pile and the corresponding angle cleat-type foundation piece, both made of steel, are welded in order to stabilize the foundations.
US11149397B2
A method of rehabbing reinforced concrete pilings while in service and without the requirement to demo or otherwise gain access over the ends of an existing column. Design adopts modern environmentally responsible fiber reinforced polymer rebar and other FRP stirrups uniquely shaped into spiral sections requiring only side access for placement, designed to permanently encase the piling with a totally non-rusting non-metal reinforcement lateral containment cage featuring preformed circumference stirrups that mechanically interlock vertically and lateral adjustability to control density. The spiral stirrups extending fully 360-degrees around an existing piling with an additional overlap of at least 45 degrees.
US11149394B2
A method of treating a pond, lake or other body of water to improve the retention of water includes treating the ground at the bed of the pond with bentonite clay, a super absorbent polymer, a polysaccharide, and a polymer flocculant. The bentonite clay can be granulated #16 Wyoming bentonite clay, the super absorbent polymer can be granulated polyacrylamide, the polysaccharide can be granulated carboxy methyl cellulose, and the polymer flocculant can be a high-performance polymer flocculant, such as 2-Propenoic Acid, polymer with 2-Promenamide, sodium salt 90-100%.
US11149384B2
A CRCP repair system is provided. The repair system may comprise a precast pavement panel having one or more openings positioned in the bottom, side portions thereof, as well as reinforcing members embedded within the panel. The panel may also include a reinforcing fastening member extending into each of the openings. The repair system may further include a prepared side edge of the CRCP having reinforcing anchoring members epoxy cemented therein and extending therefrom, with the anchoring members configured to extend into the openings of the panel with the panel positioned in the void created by the removed CRCP. The anchoring members may be configured in a pair, with each pair positioned to extend into the opening, with the fastening member extending into the opening between the pair of anchoring members. Each of the fastening members and the anchoring members may have a head on a distal end thereof, with the heads configured to create opposing and overlapping forces within the opening when cementitious adhesive (such as grout) is inserted within the opening and cured.
US11149378B2
An apparatus for drying laundry with ultraviolet radiation is provided. One or more ultraviolet light sources emit ultraviolet radiation, which, in various embodiments, is transmitted through a UV-radiation permeable transparent drum containing the wet laundry and other wet articles to be dried. Also provided is a dryer having ultraviolet light sources centrally situated with respect to the drum, wherein the ultraviolet light sources emit ultraviolet radiation directed at laundry in the drum.
US11149376B2
A washing machine capable of operating in an IoT environment through a 5G communication network and estimating the type and amount of injected detergent through a neural network model created according to machine learning, and a method of controlling the washing machine, are provided. The washing machine may include a first tub into which laundry is loaded, a water supplier configured to supply washing water to the first tub, a detergent detection sensor configured to detect first conductivity and first turbidity of the washing water, and a processor configured to determine a washing cycle of the washing machine based on detected information.
US11149374B2
A door gasket for a washing machine appliance includes a front ring engaging a front panel of the cabinet and extending around an opening defined by the front panel. A web extends from the front ring toward the wash tub and includes a flexing region (e.g., an S-fold) at least partially defining a trough. A back ring engages the wash tub and defines a plurality of venting apertures that provide fluid communication between the trough and the wash tub.
US11149371B2
A washing machine including an auxiliary washing tub in a washing tub, and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The washing machine includes a main washing tub and an auxiliary washing tub through which different laundry can be classified according to the weight or category of laundry such that the classified laundry can be separately washed. As a result, user convenience increases, and the entire washing time and unnecessary energy consumption can be reduced. When the main washing tub and the auxiliary washing tub are simultaneously operated, when only the main washing tub is independently operated, or when only the auxiliary washing tub is independently operated, laundry can be effectively washed in different ways in the washing tub and the auxiliary washing tub according to an optimum washing algorithm achieved by a combination of washing-tub rotation and pulsator rotation, such that laundry can be less damaged and washing performance can be improved.
US11149369B2
A sewing machine includes a movement mechanism, a swinging mechanism, a presser device, a guide portion, a processor, and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, instruct the processor to perform processes. The processes include acquiring pattern data used for sewing a couching pattern in which a plurality of motifs are continuously arranged. The motif is configured in a predetermined shape by a plurality of stitches including a main stitch and a sub-stitch. The processes include correcting at least one selected from the group of a start point position and an end point position of the main stitch of one of the motifs, such that the length of the main stitch of the one motif is longer in a second case than in a first case, and driving the movement mechanism and the swinging mechanism in accordance with the corrected pattern data.
US11149359B2
A physical vapor transport growth system includes a growth chamber charged with SiC source material and a SiC seed crystal in spaced relation and an envelope that is at least partially gas-permeable disposed in the growth chamber. The envelope separates the growth chamber into a source compartment that includes the SiC source material and a crystallization compartment that includes the SiC seed crystal. The envelope is formed of a material that is reactive to vapor generated during sublimation growth of a SiC single crystal on the SiC seed crystal in the crystallization compartment to produce C-bearing vapor that acts as an additional source of C during the growth of the SiC single crystal on the SiC seed crystal.
US11149357B2
A method for manufacturing a SiC single crystal having a growth container surrounded by a heat-insulating material, a seed crystal substrate disposed inside a top at a center of the container, a silicon carbide raw material disposed at a bottom of the container to sublimate and grow a SiC crystal to allow a center of the hole to deviate from a center position of the seed substrate to a position on a periphery side, a SiC substrate having a main surface tilted from a {0001} plane wherein a basal plane is used and grown with the seed substrate so that a direction of a component of a normal vector of the basal plane of the seed substrate parallel to the main surface and an eccentric direction of the hole are opposite directions in a cross-sectional view including the center of the seed substrate and the center of the hole.
